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The tick was found lodged in the skin of her left ear canal after a thorough examination by her doctors. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The unit of measure for sound intensity is the decibel (dB). A healthy human ear can hear quiet sounds like whispers, which are about 20 dB. A loud sound, such as a jet engine, is between 140 and ...

Vestigial human ear muscles react to sounds even if the external ear does not move. This could be used to build better earing aids.

Yale researchers discovered new cochlear hearing modes that influence how the ear amplifies sound and processes frequencies.