Andreas Schroeer of Saarland University says this audiobook was full of “fun little trivia that people could actually ...

A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

The auricular muscles, which enabled our distant ancestors to move their ears for better hearing, activate when people try to ...

An ear wiggler himself, Schröer has collected stories of remarkable ear abilities, such as people who feel their ears moving toward a sound and people who use their ear movements in daily life. “They ...

Muscles only believed to be used to wiggle our ears actually enable people to listen more intently, reveals new research.

To test whether humans still use auricular muscles — which once helped move our primate ancestors’ ears to funnel sound — scientists attached electrodes to the sides of people’s heads, and asked them ...

“There are three large muscles which connect the auricle to the skull and scalp and are important for ear wiggling,” explained Andreas Schröer of Saarland University, first author of the ...

Now, building on their previous research, the Saarland University scientists have conducted a new study, published Jan. 31 in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, to zoom in more closely on how the ...

Although modern humans cannot move their ears around in the same way that dogs, cats, and horses do, the findings suggest ...

They are still used by roughly 10 to 20 percent of people with the fun ability to ... a study co-author and neuroscientist from Saarland University in Germany, said in a statement.

Luxembourg will complain to the European Commission about Germany's extension of border controls, Luxembourgian Interior ...

Only in the small state of Saarland (1 million inhabitants ... a young party and still do not have a core constituency. Many people do not yet know who they want to vote for, Wagenknecht said.