A dose of music could do wonders for anxious people, according to clinical trial research out this month. Scientists in Toronto, Canada, and the UK observed what happened to people taking medication ...

Scientists at PSI were able to observe the local collagen structures in an ossicle by scanning it with an X-ray beam. The different colours of the cylinders indicate how strongly the collagen bundles ...

Biological materials are masterpieces created by nature. Bones, for example, are extremely hard, yet at the same time elastic enough to withstand lateral forces without breaking easily. This ...

An artist illustration of two "small mice", also known as Microtherulum oneirodes, based on the mammalian fossil discovered in Northeast China's Liaoning province. [Photo/chinanews.com] A new study ...

While there is currently no cure for Alzheimer's disease, a new breakthrough involving a specific frequency of sound and a group of elderly monkeys has sparked hope among researchers. The team from ...

A research team from the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has demonstrated for the first time in non-human primates that auditory stimulation at 40 Hz ...

Sam Schwarzkopf received internal funding to pay research participants for their time. Inspired by owls and their amazing ability to find their prey by hearing alone, my team decided to test how good ...

Hearing imaginary voices is a common but mysterious feature of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Up to 80 percent of people with these conditions experience auditory hallucinations, hearing speech or ...

For decades, scientists have suspected that the voices heard by people with schizophrenia might be their own inner speech gone awry. Now, researchers have found brainwave evidence showing exactly how ...

The scleral ossicle rings function has been related to mechanical protection, muscle fixation, support for eyeball shape and visual accommodation. There are few morphobiometric reports on these rings ...

Introduction: The study of the middle ear and especially the ossicular chain in different species can bring interesting insights into the biomechanics of hearing. The ground squirrel’s middle ear ...

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