An analysis conducted on the fossilized remains of crickets and katydid that lived 50 million years ago revealed that these creatures evolved ears at a time when there were no predators to use them against.
Understandably, ears evolved as a defense mechanism in most species, allowing them to detect a predator while... |
4 January 2012
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Snakes are notorious for being able to hear even though they lack an external ear. Scientists have been puzzled at how that is possible for quite some time, and recently they were able to figure out that the reptiles' heads vibrate.
The inner ear picks up these vibrations, and turns them into sound sensations.... |
22 December 2011
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A group of scientists proposes a new method for reducing the severity of tinnitus. This is a condition of the human ear, in which people hear what can best be described as “phantom” sounds and ringing, even though no discernible sound source exists. Experts from the Dallas-based startup Microtransponder s... |
24 May 2010
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Researchers have recently determined that the phenomenon known as a lazy ear actually exists. They say that it can be likened to a lazy eye, a condition that can be treated in small children where one or both eyes have difficulty processing visual images. Scientists believe that ear infections at any stage of life ca... |
11 March 2010
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The fact that butterflies had ears remained a mystery to science until 1912, when the first such structures were ever identified. Since then, researchers have analyzed them on all sides, and have discovered that the organs, far from being similar in all butterfly species, were in fact extremely diverse and different.... |
26 October 2009
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Over the past few years, as personal music players have become more and more common and affordable, athletes around the world have started wearing their headphones during workouts, saying that their favorite tunes give them more energy, and make the long sessions seem to be funner. Exactly why this happens is still s... |
21 October 2009
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Maotherium asiaticus is the name Chinese and American researchers gave to a newly discovered fossil species, which lived in the Liaoning Province of China some 123 million years ago. The chipmunk-sized creature was found in the Yixian Formation, a very rich fossil bed that had yielded countless amazing discoveries ov... |
9 October 2009
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According to a new scientific study carried out in Italy, people are more likely to answer favorably to demands if they hear more of the question with their right ear than the left one. The team behind the new investigation says that the cause for this is the fact that the areas inside the brain hemispheres that deal... |
24 June 2009
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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 managed to bring reasonable qu... |
28 April 2009
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New studies on the human ear have recently revealed the fact that not only are we able to hear things around us, but that our ears also produce an acoustic signal, which is too faint to be picked up without the help of some serious modern-age technology. Highly sensitive microphones have been able to detect that each... |
13 April 2009
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Microtia is a fairly rare medical condition, which is encountered in about 1 in 10,000 newborn babies and is characterized by a small or inexistent external ear. Most patients are born with an underdeveloped auditory organ, while others have the auditory canal blocked as well. For these people, reconstructive surgery... |
18 March 2009
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Digital music players are one of the most purchased and widespread categories of personal products in the world today, owned by tens of millions of people. In the European Union alone, more than 10 million young people have them, and use them regularly, listening on average more than 2 hours per day on their headphon... |
30 January 2009
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Progressive hearing loss is a common disease amongst Djs, who live most of their lives in the loud noises of control rooms in clubs or discos around the world. After years and years of prolonged exposure to strong noises, their ear muscles deteriorate, and, in the end, total deafness sets in. Researchers now believe ... |
21 January 2009
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