How Do You Hear Without 'Ears'?
History’s littered with lost ears: Van Gogh’s, Evander Holyfield’s, that ear Kyle MacLachlan finds in a field in Blue…
Five Chinese Children Get Lab-Made Ears Grown From Their Own Cells
Chinese scientists say they’ve accomplished something that’s long been a goal in the world of regenerative…
UK Doctors Actually Got Together and Studied How Much Ears Grow as We Age
A group of UK doctors got together and measured ear growth with age. Then they decided to teach us all the European…
My Cyborg Ear: How a Surgeon and Titanium Cured My Lifelong Deafness
I’ve never been able to hear well. As a child, I was in and out of the hospital as doctors struggled to treat chronic…
How a desert cat uses its super ears to hunt birds in mid-flight
This footage of a desert cat taking out a bird in mid-flight is another impressive reminder of the astonishing power of…
A Replica Of The World's Most Famous Ear Is Now On Display
A German museum is exhibiting a 3D-printed copy of Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh's ear grown from the genetic material…
Kitten wiggling its ears like a real life gremlin while he eats
Here's a tiny kitten so happy to eat that he wiggles his ears out of pure enjoyment—or something—like Gizmo the mogwai.…
Test How Old Your Ears Are (And How Much Damage You've Done to Them)
Deep down we all know we shouldn't crank our music or listen to headphones with the volume really high, but we still…
Using Your iPhone To Detect Ear Infections Also Keeps the Doctor Away
Forget that daily apple. Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have developed the Remotoscope, an…
Woman Grows a New Ear on Her Arm, Has It Attached to Her Head (Warning: Graphic)
Yep, this happened. Doctors at Johns Hopkins have attached a new ear to a patient that was grown on her own forearm.…
A Dog With Dumbo-Sized Ears
Harbor is an 8-year old Black and Tan Coonhound with big ears. His ears are so big, he now holds the Guinness World…
Your Ears Might Be Better For Identification Than Your Fingerprints
On a planet hosting 6.7 billion human beings, having proof you're unique is of tantamount importance. The ear, it turns…
Canada Will Not Be Denied Its Combat-Jet-Loud SunChips Bags
Hearing loss be damned! Our rugged northern neighbors are defiantly standing behind the Frito-Lay bag that's louder…
Researchers Claim They've Created the Perfect 3D Human Ear Model
Researchers at the National Physics Laboratory in the U.K. have modeled what they believe to be the perfect human ear.…
SunChips' New 100% Compostable Bag Is Hilariously, Ear-Damagingly Loud
There’s one kinda big problem with SunChips’ new 100% compostable bag: It’s noisy as Hell. An Air Force pilot says…
Pull-Navi System Gives Directions and Dumbo-Like Ears
I used to be excited about iPhone turn-by-turn navigation, but the Pull-Navi system (straight from Tokyo University of…
Ear Pressure Equalizer Sucks On Your Eardrum to Un-Pop It in Planes
Now that's a headline you won't see often, and yet that's exactly what this gizmo does. You pop it in your ear, and…
Genetically-Engineered Hairs Improve the Human Ear
As humans age, their hearing naturally grows less acute because they begin to lose tiny sensory hairs (pictured,…
Cut-the-Crap iPhone Headset Battlemodo
Whether you love or hate your iPhone, you'll get tired of holding that big sticky piece of glass next to your face…
Gross Binaural Microphone is Clearly Missing a Face
Binaural sound recordings can be creepy enough, but knowing that they may have originated at this Otokinoko ear-mic…