The content discusses the fundamentals of acoustics, focusing on sound refraction, the anatomy of the ear, and how sound ...

Sitting in a cramped seat for hours can cause fluid to pool in your legs and feet, leading to swelling. In extreme cases, it ...

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 ...

Dutch scientist Leonie Cornips has become fascinated with how cows communicate. But can this really be called 'language'?

Not just 'men's nipples': 10 seemingly useless parts of the human body - GIGAZINE The auricular muscles, which allow ear movement, are also a vestigial organ. Many animals can move their ears in ...

Tens of millions of years ago, our primate ancestors responded to noises in much the same way many other mammals do, pricking their ears and deftly turning them towards the sound's source. While a few ...

The authors reasoned that many similarities between the appearance of cartilage under the microscope for zebrafish gills and human ears cannot be just a coincidence. Knowing that both the gills ...

Though (most) humans lost the ability to wiggle their ears millions of years ago ... Other vestigial features in the human body include sinuses, the tailbone, and wisdom teeth.

Wiggling your ears is a fun party trick, but it turns out we do it ever so slightly when we're trying to hear better too. Scientists previously thought the muscle used to wiggle your ears was ...

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 ...