A report Emma has already described as a horror show. Nina Bhadreshwar’s crime novel The Day of the Roaring tells the story of Sheffield Detective Inspector Diana Walker, who is trying to solve ...

and the University of Missouri have shown the muscles once tasked with moving our outer ears – or auricles – still do their darndest to contract when we strive to hear something interesting. "There ...

Wiggling your ears is a fun party trick, but it turns out we do it ever so slightly when we're trying to hear better too. Scientists previously thought the muscle used to wiggle your ears was ...

"If the superior auricular muscles, the ones that perk the ears up, are activated, the hearing aid would know that the user is expending a lot of effort to hear and understand something," study co ...

They are amongst the first to leave or let membership lapse, though may still identify with the party. Most party members are inactive, others are active intermittently (campaigning at election time) ...

Yale physicists discovered a new set of mechanical modes in the cochlea that influence how the ear amplifies sound, tolerates noise, and discerns frequencies. Their findings, based on mathematical ...

As dauntingly separate from it as we have let ourselves become, we somehow retain an atavistic fascination with the animals we live among but rarely understand. Any reminder of what we’ve ...

I love the news that the keen crafters of the St Albans Postboxes have set a new world record with their display of Christmas-themed post box toppers. They put 102 brilliant different creations on ...