The outer ear or external ear is the visible portion of the ear which serves as a protective organ for the eardrum. It gathers and controls sound waves into the middle ear. Ear Flap (Pinna) – The ...

The ear reconstruction is part of a clinical trial for patients with microtia, a rare congenital deformity where one or both outer ears are absent or underdeveloped In a "groundbreaking" surgery, ...

The human middle ear—which houses three tiny, vibrating bones—is key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses that allow us to hear. Embryonic and fossil ...

No two human ears are exactly alike. Like our fingerprints, they bear enough variances to make each of us unique. Most of these differences are subtle, slight variations in the shape and size of the ...

Researchers have transplanted a 3D-printed human ear—made by the regenerative medicine company 3DBio Therapeutics—for the first time. The basic process involves a biopsy to harvest cartilage cells ...

Physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of 'modes' within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, and ...

RIT audio engineering professor awarded NIH funding to improve auditory decoding technologies and how the brain helps censor ...

Working with some unusual accessories (including canary birds, guppiesand nervous women), Inventor S. Young White is digging into a complexstudy called ultrasonics.* Last week, in Audio Engineering, ...