Making Sense of Hearing

Meet some of the people featured in the September 2015 issue of The Scientist.

Auditory research advances worth shouting about

September 2015's selection of notable quotes

Until recently, auditory brainstem implants have been restricted to patients with tumors on their auditory nerves.

The quest to document an ancient sea creature reveals a cyclical chorus of fish songs.

Researchers explore the benefits of hearing loss and impairment.

Meet Tilak Ratnanather, the deaf biomedical engineer who mentors hard-of-hearing students headed for STEM careers.

Given the diverse cell types and complex structure of the human inner ear, will researchers ever be able to re-create it?

Reviving a decades-old hypothesis of autoimmunity

Scientists map the position of cells within the organ of Corti.

How the human ear translates sound waves into nervous impulses

Common in vitro experiments have distorted the true mechanics of mammalian hair cell stereocilia.

Support cells in the inner ear respond differently to two drugs that kill hair cells.

A molecular signature makes it possible to trace the details of hair cell replacement in the mammalian inner ear.

A teaching obligation in graduate school introduced James Hudspeth to a career focused on how vertebrates sense sounds.

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology University of California, Riverside. Age: 44

A guide to culturing cells with viruses in mind

A guide to crafting tissues in a dish that reprise in vivo organs

Science-based tinnitus therapeutics are finally coming into their own.

A new approach shows how both honesty and deception are stable features of noisy communication.

Brain Storms, Orphan, Maize for the Gods, and Paranoid.

Fetal specimens collected by commercial whalers offer insights into how whales may have evolved their specialized hearing organs.