Fossilized fish ear stones—known as otoliths—can reveal far more than previously thought. In a recent study, a team of ...

Researchers in Göttingen, Germany, have elucidated the structure and function of otoferlin, a protein that plays a crucial ...

The boundary between human and artificial voices is becoming increasingly blurred. While we thought we could easily ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to prosthetic limbs, ...

Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits and pieces of us that are performing miracles on a daily basis." Take the human heart, for instance. If ...

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While nonhuman animals (animals) have played a large role in many aspects of human history, most traditional historical works either give them passing coverage or ignore them totally. 1 That is among ...

You never know what you’re going to learn when John Kruk is broadcasting a Philadelphia Phillies game, but you’re going to learn something. Whether you like it or not. One of Major League Baseball’s ...

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, and public reviews. In this manuscript, Rainey et al investigated the effects of ...

Abstract: The human ear has emerged as a bidirectional gateway to the brain's and body's signals. Recent advances in around-the-ear and in-ear sensors have enabled the assessment of biomarkers and ...