Some people occasionally hear a low buzzing or humming sound that doesn't have a clear source. An estimated 2–4% of the world's population hear this. Scientists have been trying to figure out for ...

Yale physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of “modes” within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, ...

Hair cells in the human ear contain cilia of varying lengths that sense varied acoustic signals. Here, inspired by this, we report an artificial cilia-based sound-decoding device capable of directly ...