The Alpine Muffy Baby Ear Defenders have a noise reduction rating of 23 dB, which is lower than some other baby ear defenders I tested, including the Dekukar Baby Ear Defenders and Reer SilentGuard ...

Elephants trumpeted, touched trunks and flapped their oversized ears upon reuniting with their herd after a complex, five-day ...

Hearing loss isn't just caused by loud noises. There are several unexpected factors that can affect your ears. Here's what ...

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

A preauricular pit is a small hole in front of your ear that you are born with. Most of the time it is harmless and doesn’t cause any health problems. A preauricular pit is a small hole or cyst ...

The best over-ear headphones also create a tight seal around your ears, providing an extra layer of passive sound blocking. Testing the Apple AirPods Max headphones, which didn't make the final ...

“There are three large muscles [that] connect the auricle [the outer ear] to the skull and scalp,” said Andreas Schröer, a study author and a neuroscientist at Saarland University in Germany, in a ...

When we strain to catch what someone is saying in a noisy room, for example, small muscles in our outer ears, called the superior auricular muscles, kick into action, likely in an attempt to ...

Ear pain can affect the outer ear, ear canal, ear drum, and middle ear. These are the nine most common conditions causing ear pain. Otitis media is more common in children because of the size and ...

A mechanism that activates specific muscles in our ears is a leftover from our evolutionary past, back when our ancestors depended more on their hearing for survival.

Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...