When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There are some sounds you hope you never hear. For example, the buzzing sound of a tick burrowing ...

Three days after a 9-year-old Connecticut boy started to hear a strange buzzing sound in his ear, his parents took him to a doctor at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. The boy reported that he had ...

Ruptured eardrums are relatively common. Fortunately, small tears usually heal by themselves. But some large tears need to be repaired by a surgeon. This animation shows how a new tissue-engineering ...

Millions of years ago marine animals had hearing organs that allowed them to detect sounds in the water. When land dwelling animals evolved they now had to detect environmental sounds that traveled ...

Researchers have created a new smartphone app that can detect fluid behind the eardrum by simply using a piece of paper and a smartphone's microphone and speaker. Ear infections are the most common ...

Sound waves pass from the ear canal in the outer ear to the middle ear and create a vibration of the eardrum. Due to the vibrations of the tiny bones in the middle ear, we are able to hear sound. When ...

A 9-year-old boy from New England who heard a buzzing in his ear discovered it was an insect that had attached itself to his eardrum. In a case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, ...