In the mid-1670s, Johannes Swammerdam, a Dutch biologist, peered through his microscope at a honeybee's brain and drew what ...

The content discusses the fundamentals of acoustics, focusing on sound refraction, the anatomy of the ear, and how sound ...

PM Modi, who is co-chairing the AI Action Summit with French President Emmanuel Macron, began his address with an ...

Imagine an ear falling off a first century Roman statue and you’ll get an idea of what someone found at the Lake Mead National Recreational Area in Arizona. Photos of the fossil — yes, it’s assumed to ...

A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray. Analyzing a wealth of DNA collected from fossilized human bones, the researchers found that the first Indo-European speakers ...

Yet, despite being functionally obsolete, the muscles around the human ear—the auricular muscles—still activate when we focus on specific sounds. Scientists at Saarland University in Germany ...

The authors reasoned that many similarities between the appearance of cartilage under the microscope for zebrafish gills and human ears cannot be just a coincidence. Knowing that both the gills ...

Tens of millions of years ago, our primate ancestors responded to noises in much the same way many other mammals do, pricking their ears and deftly turning them towards the sound's source. While a few ...

Despite progress in AI-driven human animation, existing models often face limitations in motion realism, adaptability, and scalability. Many models struggle to generate fluid body movements and rely ...

Of course they’ve made their way into human tissue, he says. Earlier studies have found them in lungs, intestines, blood, liver and placenta. In the samples collected in 2024, concentrations of ...

A new study finds microplastics accumulate at higher levels in human brains than in the liver and kidneys. Microplastics, plastic particles fewer than 5 millimeters in size, have infiltrated the ...

In almost every species, ear movement can be a clue that the animal is trying to pay close attention to something. When people are trying hard to listen to something, the body seems to do its best ...