Like other sensory organs that allow mankind to experience the environment, the ear has long held a special fascination for scientists. In mammals, the inner workings of the ear are encased in the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: One of the key discoveries was the confirmation that mammalian hearing operates near a criticality known as a Hopf bifurcation—a turning point that ...

Researchers have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labeling stem cells with a genetic 'barcode', they have been able to follow the ...

Researchers at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders have identified a previously unknown mechanism that destroys the sensory hair cells of the inner ear, a discovery ...

The inner ear is a marvel of evolution, but scientists are still puzzled over certain aspects of its operation. Two related studies detail how scientists successfully excised a sliver of an inner ear ...