Specifically, closed-back over-ear headphones ... barely a wiggle, in fact. Regardless of this, the generously upholstered earpads and shallow but firm headband hold them in place snuggly and ...

With a sleek, fitted look that doesn’t wiggle around during bouncy ... This wide, soft headband stays in place around your ears (or holds your hair back) without creating pressure points with ...

Ancient ear-wiggling muscles kick on when people strain to hear. That auricular activity, described January 30 in Frontiers in Neuroscience, probably doesn’t do much, if anything. But these ...

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear ...

A new study suggests that our muscles for ear wiggling are also active when we listen with lots of effort. (Credit: BLACKDAY/Shutterstock) They wiggle, though they don’t do much else. That’s what ...

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 ...

The muscles that enable modern humans to wiggle their ears likely had a more important job in our evolutionary ancestors. . | Credit: Khmelyuk/Getty Images The little muscles that enable people to ...

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A “useless” muscle that allows some people to wiggle their ears actually activates when we strain to hear something. Our ape ancestors lost the ability to pivot their ears when they diverged ...

Muscles only believed to be used to wiggle our ears actually enable people to listen more intently, reveals new research. Researchers have found that the auricular muscles, which helped our ...