Why are some people unable to hear from birth, even though their inner ear appears intact? One possible cause lies in the ...

By emitting energy through oscillations, certain hair-cell bundles amplify sound waves so they can be picked up better by other hair-cell bundles.

Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, the University Medical Center Göttingen, and the Max Planck Institute for ...

In the intricate machinery of the inner ear, hearing begins with a protein that moves a few billionths of a meter up to ...