New Insight into How Humans Hear

A new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine comes to shed some doubts on the classic model of how the ear transforms sound into vibrations. Devised decades ago, the model has held bravely to criticism for many years, but it would seem that the recent study has finally manag... [ read more >> ]

The inner ear seems to be organized a bit differently than thought over the past 30 years

Image comment: The inner ear seems to be organized a bit differently than thought over the past 30 years
Image credits: NIH / National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

The inner ear seems to be organized a bit differently than thought over the past 30 years