That’s why there are three things you need to bring to every gun range: hearing protection, eye protection, and common sense. I’ve been testing the best shooting ear protection over the past month to ...

I've personally tested well over 160 audio products since becoming a full-time audio writer in 2019, but TechRadar's been in this game since 2006, with the wider TechRadar team clocking in over ...

Gills and mammalian ears bear little resemblance, yet examination of gene regulation reveals that key supportive cartilage tissue arises from similar embryonic cells guided by an evolutionarily ...

An older man presses his fingers to the side of his head, next to his ear. To test whether humans still use auricular muscles — which once helped move our primate ancestors’ ears to funnel sound — ...

It's perhaps not an area most people first notice when looking at a celebrity on our screens - however, some famous faces' ears are so noteworthy that they simply can't be ignored. Take for ...

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear ...

A mechanism that activates specific muscles in our ears is a leftover from our evolutionary past, back when our ancestors depended more on their hearing for survival.

A “useless” muscle that allows some people to wiggle their ears actually activates when we strain to hear something. Our ape ancestors lost the ability to pivot their ears when they diverged ...