The Caltech scientist was revered for his work on the neurobiology of birdsong and owls’ ability to home in on their prey.

An experimental hearing aid differentiates speakers and monitors the wearer’s brain activity to amplify the one she is trying to listen to.

From disastrous scientific setbacks to the upending of scientific dogma and the end of a 40-year search for a protein

Eight environmental groups took the legal measure in an effort to protect North Atlantic right whales and other marine organisms.

After a decades-long pursuit, researchers have confirmed the identity of the pore of the mechanotransduction channel in vertebrates’ inner ear hair cells.

Researchers have been using ultrasound to control brain activity, but studies in mice and guinea pigs show it also stimulates the auditory system, presenting a confounder for direct neural stimulation.

The Atlantic has been free of intense air-gun blasts to probe for oil and gas for 30 years, and researchers fear for endangered North Atlantic right whales and other animals.

Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.

Barbastelle bats trick moths with muffled echolocation calls.

Researchers reduce the severity of hereditary deafness in mice with the delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 protein-RNA complexes that inactivate a mutant gene in their inner ears. 

By investigating the science behind “seeing” with sound, researchers hope to help blind individuals independently navigate the world.

Daniel Kish, who is blind, uses vocal clicks to navigate the world by echolocation.

Using three-dimensional culture, which allows cells to grow in a ball-shape aggregate, scientists created inner ear organoids containing sensory neurons and hair cells.

Music sounds very different to cochlear implant users. Researchers are trying to improve the experience.

Acting Chief, Section on Sensory Cell Development and Function, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Age: 38

People continue to hear and process words during light non-REM sleep, a study shows.

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Deficiency in a protein called pejvakin makes inner ear cells more vulnerable to sound, unable to brace themselves against oxidative stress stimulated by noise.