Scientists kept an inner ear alive outside the body for the first time

The ability to analyze how the inner ear works could help provide better therapies, especially for sensorineural hearing loss ...
The Atlantic

You Can See Inside Your Ear. That Doesn’t Mean You Should.

The ear is a marvelous, humble organ. It powers our hearing and also our balance, keeping us upright and connected to the world around us. In return, ear doctors tend to ask that we follow one very ...
Yahoo

Extinct ape's inner ear holds clues to how humans learned to walk upright

An artist’s reconstruction of the locomotor behavior and paleoenvironment of Lufengpithecus. This extinct primate lived in East Asia during the Miocene. “It would have been about the size of a ...
AOL

A spider was found inside a woman's ear. Such cases are rare, doctors say, but not unheard of.

It started with a strange sensation in her left ear: the feeling of movement, followed by incessant clicking and rustling sounds. After struggling to sleep for several nights, the 64-year-old woman in ...
Newsweek

Spider Found Shedding Its Exoskeleton Inside Woman’s Ear

In a scene straight out of a horror movie, a woman had a spider nesting and shedding its exoskeleton inside her ear. The 64-year-old woman discovered the spidery squatter after going to the Tainan ...
New York Post

My ear felt scratchy — I found a spider’s nest inside and then threw up

What’s worse than having a spider in your ear? How about a whole nest of them? A UK mom realized every arachnophobe’s worst nightmare after discovering an apparent spider nursery inside her ear canal, ...
The Spokesman-Review

Ask the doctors: Managing vertigo from inner ear fluid buildup

Dear Doctors: I recently experienced severe vertigo due to fluid in my inner ear from a sinus infection. It affected not only my balance, but also my blood pressure and anxiety. Are there any ...