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Effective Ways to Pop Your Ears When Pressure Builds

Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published March 24, 2018. Nearly 20% of Americans, or 48 million people, report having some degree of hearing loss.1 It may be easy to take hearing for granted as it happens without any effort on your part. However it is a complex process, beginning with… Read More: Effective Ways to Pop Your Ears When Pressure Builds »

Our animal inheritance: Humans perk up their ears, too, when they hear interesting sounds

Many animals, including dogs, cats and various species of monkeys, will move their ears to better focus their attention on a novel sound. That humans also have this capability was not known until now. A research team based in Saarland has demonstrated for the first time that we make minute, unconscious movements of our ears… Read More: Our animal inheritance: Humans perk up their ears, too, when… »