Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...

The auricular muscles, which enabled our distant ancestors to move their ears for better hearing, activate when people try to ...

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling ...

In contrast, people with higher amounts of lean muscle had a lower risk. Fat stored under the skin (subcutaneous fat) did not increase the risk. Professor Taqueti said, "Compared to subcutaneous ...

Are you paying attention to your pelvic floor health? The pelvic floor is a group of muscles and nerves that form a "supportive hammock" from the back, through the tailbone, lower abdominal area ...

However, most people can't find the energy to do intense cardio several times a week, so he argued that resistance training — which grows muscles by placing them under tension — is a more ...

By putting in the effort, you're still putting the muscle under tension—and there's evidence that even that limited stimulus can result in more gains. "Even if you can't get all the way to the ...