You are looking at one of the most important sensory shifts in mammal history: the rise of sensitive hearing. Modern mammals ...

When someone opens the door and enters a hospital room, wearing a stethoscope is a telltale sign that they’re a clinician. This medical device has been around for over 200 years and remains a staple ...

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New audio adjusts to your own personal hearing, whether you hear like a dolphin or an old-guy human.

Fred Sharpe has studied humpback whales in Alaska for more than three decades. He’s particularly interested in the sounds they make – and what they mean. Lately, the biologist has been focusing on the ...

Silence might not be deafening, but it's something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort ...

Thanks to two microphones aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover, the mission has recorded nearly five hours of Martian wind gusts, rover wheels crunching over gravel, and motors whirring as the spacecraft ...

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A subtle whooshing or pulsing sound in the ear, often noticed in quiet environments, is gaining medical attention. Doctors ...