Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have refined an X-ray diffraction technique for detecting biological structures from nanometers to millimeters—reducing the time needed to make the ...

Medically reviewed by Sukaina Hasnie, MD Key Takeaways The malleus is a small bone in the ear that helps transmit sound ...

The vertebrate ear is a remarkable structure. Tightly encapsulated within the densest bone of the skeleton, it comprises the smallest elements of the vertebrate skeleton (auditory ossicles) and gives ...

Severance Hospital announced on June 24 that it has recently achieved 3,000 cases of auditory implant surgeries. The process by which humans hear sound involves the outer ear (the external part of the ...

Anthropologists could shed new light on the earliest existence of humans. The study analyzed the tiny ear bones, the malleus, incus and stapes, from two species of early human ancestor in South Africa ...

Otosclerosis is one of many hearing disorders found only in humans, affecting the otic capsule. It occurs when the joints between the ossicles in the middle ear become hardened with age. The formation ...

FEW problems in morphology have aroused more interest than that of the origin of the ear ossicles. It is a familiar fact that the Mammalia differ from all other gnathostomes in having a chain of three ...

Scientists have produced a 3-D reconstruction of the remains of a two-year-old Neanderthal recovered from an excavation carried out back in the 1970s at La Ferrassie (Dordogne, France). The work ...

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 ...