Iram Ahmad: Inside your middle ear is the nerve that moves the muscles ... For example, research has shown that white noise can dull saltiness but enhance crunchiness. And in one study, volunteers ...

New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of ...

By winding itself in a spiral, the organ takes up less space. The bony chambers (purple) of the inner ear form precise geometric shapes (see Figure 4). There are five sensory epithelia in the balance ...

The inner ear is divided into two fluid filled chambers - one inside the other. Figure 3 illustrates the basic organization of both the organs of hearing and balance. The fluid in the two chambers ...