Neanderthals also got 'surfer's ear,' suggesting they liked to fish
What do surfers, kayakers and Neanderthals have in common?
Archaeology
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News tagged with human ear
3-D printing could one day help fix damaged cartilage in knees, noses and ears
Athletes, the elderly and others who suffer from injuries and arthritis can lose cartilage and experience a lot of pain. Researchers are now reporting, however, that they have found a way to produce cartilage tissue by 3-D ...
Materials Science
Mar 16, 2016
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Great headphones blend physics, anatomy – but what you like to listen to is also important for choosing the right pair
Between music, podcasts, gaming and the unlimited supply of online content, most people spend hours a week wearing headphones. Perhaps you are considering a new pair for the holidays, but with so many options on the market, ...
Other
Nov 26, 2021
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Did a common childhood illness take down the Neanderthals?
It is one of the great unsolved mysteries of anthropology. What killed off the Neanderthals, and why did Homo sapiens thrive even as Neanderthals withered to extinction? Was it some sort of plague specific only to Neanderthals? ...
Archaeology
Sep 19, 2019
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Researchers measure cavitation noise in trees
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers from Grenoble University in France has found that under experimental conditions, roughly half of the noise created by drying wood is due to cavitation. The team made this discovery while ...
Neanderthal middle ear structure found to be closer to modern human than apes
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Jena University Hospital and University College London has taken a very close look at the middle ear structure of ...
Sonata in LHCb: The sound of antimatter (w/ Video)
In a recent paper the LHCb collaboration at CERN observed two particles changing from matter into antimatter and back again. Now the collaboration has turned that data into sound, so that you can listen to the music of antimatter.
General Physics
Aug 27, 2013
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Human bony labyrinth used as an indicator of dispersal from Africa
An international team of researchers has found that it is possible to use the human bony labyrinth of the ear as an indicator of dispersal from Africa. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...
Mechanism helps explain the ear's exquisite sensitivity
The human ear, like those of other mammals, is so extraordinarily sensitive that it can detect sound-wave-induced vibrations of the eardrum that move by less than the width of an atom. Now, researchers at MIT have discovered ...
General Physics
Jan 16, 2019
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Blind cavefish use teeth to find their way, research shows
(Phys.org)—In a single cave in Ecuador, a species of cavefish has evolved to do something perhaps unique to them, navigate with their teeth.
Plants & Animals
Sep 20, 2012
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