A 5,300-year-old skull from Spain has revealed what might be the world’s oldest example of ear surgery. Excavations in Reinoso, northern Spain, unearthed the skull as part of a mass grave of more than ...

A high-precision surgical robot for cochlear implantation has been developed by a team of surgeons and engineers. To embed an electronic cochlear implant device into the ear of a deaf patient, the ...

A new device could greatly improve ear infection diagnoses and drastically reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions, a major cause of antibiotic resistance. A new device developed by researchers at ...

New Algorithm Captures What Pleases the Human Ear---and May Replace Human Instrument Tuners Discover how tuning musical instruments combines art and science by using a new algorithm for tuning that ...

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