“The link between winter and ear infections lies in the anatomy of the ear. The eustachian tubes that connect the middle ear to the throat play a crucial role in maintaining pressure and ...

Recent research conducted at Saarland University in Germany revealed that humans also move their ears in response to sound — at least to some degree. When we strain to catch what someone is ...

I marvelled at how your hands manipulated enteric anatomy to cure. At the time I was in college with ... To my father's engineering ear, you suggested antibiotics and antidotes. To my physician ear, ...

A 59-year-old Chinese man presented to the Otorhinolaryngology (ear, nose and throat ... first to restore maxillary sinus drainage and second to restore normal orbit anatomy and function. Sinus ...

The fact that most people don’t understand the anatomy of a shoe leads to a near universal shopping experience: You see a particular trail running shoe or hiking boot hyped online. Molded EVA ...

Scientists call this feature a “neural fossil”. It’s a remnant of a system that once helped our ancestors pinpoint the ...

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

An ear wiggler himself, Schröer has collected stories of remarkable ear abilities, such as people who feel their ears moving toward a sound and people who use their ear movements in daily life. “They ...

Do your ears hang low, do they wiggle to and fro? In the latter case, that’s thanks to a so-called “neural fossil”.

Vestigial human ear muscles react to sounds even if the external ear does not move. This could be used to build better earing aids.

Thought to be pretty redundant in modern humans outside of wiggling our ears for a giggle, new research has revealed that certain ear muscles that let animals and our ancient ancestors move their ...