the addition of radiation to lymphatic vessels that are wounded restricts lymphangiogenesis in both the ear and the tail murine models. Critically, this restriction of lymphangiogenesis may result in ...

Travelers swear by this old wives’s tale for relieving ear pain, but doctors are skeptical of the hot cup’s efficacy.

The auricular muscles, which enabled our distant ancestors to move their ears for better hearing, activate when people try to ...

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles ...

But, when I’m logging miles outside and sharing the road with cars, I prefer to keep my ears open to my surroundings. That’s where “open-ear buds” shine. They’re the newest advancement ...

To test whether humans still use auricular muscles — which once helped move our primate ancestors’ ears to funnel sound — scientists attached electrodes to the sides of people’s heads, and asked them ...

It often uses old structures (or ancient genes) for new jobs. The mammalian ear is a perfect example. Over the eons, the jawbones of our fish ancestors became three separate small bones that ...

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.

That constant ringing in your ears isn’t just annoying — it could be tinnitus. The condition affects more than 50 million Americans, with nearly 20 million cases considered chronic ...

“Sudden temperature shifts create pressure changes in the environment, which the ear works to balance through the Eustachian tube — a tunnel connecting the middle ear to the back of the nose,” ...