Picture this: a wriggling fish, swimming in ancient seas, whose jawbones would one day transform into the sophisticated ...

The ear is much more than a hearing device ... Glenn hit his head so hard that shock waves went rippling through his temporal bone. Since the inner and middle ears are contained in a cavity ...

The humerus is your upper arm bone. It is the longest bone in the upper part of your body and is connected to many important tendons and ligaments. The top of the humerus is part of the shoulder joint ...

The compact buds not only take a (sometimes) massive weight off your noggin but can securely keep their position in your ear so you don't miss a beat. I'm old-school and still prefer to have the ...

This breakthrough could one day allow doctors to detect hearing problems and inner ear diseases with non-invasive tools, something current imaging tech can’t do. The team created a microscopic ...

below the temporal and occipital lobes and above the brainstem. Like the cerebral cortex, it has two hemispheres. The outer portion contains neurons, and the inner area communicates with the cerebral ...

Our understanding of how sound transmission and impedance-matching by the middle ear works is informed by initial studies of anatomy in the 19th century ... filled space in the petrous part of the ...

The osseous labyrinth—i.e., cochlea and vestibular system—was dissected from the mouse temporal bone and fixed in 4% formaldehyde (diluted in PBS) for 1 h on ice. Subsequently, samples were ...

The mechanisms of formation of the distinct sensory organs of the inner ear and the non-sensory domains that separate them are still unclear. Here, we show that several sensory patches arise by ...