Our ears are a delicate instrument, composed of a variety of elegant structures. Less than a millimeter thick, the eardrum or tympanic membrane receives information from our surroundings and transmits ...

If your ear is bleeding, it could be caused by anything from something stuck inside to a torn eardrum. The bleeding can come from the outer, middle, or inner part of your ear. The outer ear is the ...

A case report describes bubbles emerging from a freediver's ear after a 50-meter descent, suggesting a perforated eardrum, ...

Gwen Stefani had to bow out of her scheduled headlining performance at the annual Keep Memory Alive: Power of Love Gala after rupturing her ear drum, event organizers told attende ...

Excessive noise, hearing loss, vascular constriction, old age—hearing difficulties can be caused by many factors. To help improve the quality of life of people with hearing impairment, Mannheim ...

Researchers have used evo-devo methods to determine that the eardrum evolved independently in mammals and reptiles/birds. Researchers at the RIKEN Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory and the University ...