Before NASA could send anyone to space, they needed to understand what weightlessness does to the body. The answer came from ...

Teflon cardiologist Dr Wouter Basson, former head of the apartheid government’s secret chemical and biological warfare programme, will face a Health Professions Council of South Africa disciplinary ...

After the experiments, the hedgehogs recovered, were checked again, and were later released back into the wild. An ear built for high notes The hearing tests were only half the story. Researchers also ...

Hearing loss and dementia affect millions of people worldwide. But headlines describing hearing loss as the “leading mid-life risk factor” for dementia can be misleading. They often oversimplify ...

A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching pursuit of companionship. After being abandoned by his mother and rejected by the rest of his troop, his zookeepers at Ichikawa ...

I’ve been blasting music in my AirPods Pro for years now, but I had never really considered that they could actually protect my hearing until recently. Both the AirPods Pro 2 and 3 include a range of ...

University of Queensland hearing tests conducted across kilometers of ocean off the Australian coast show humpback whales react to higher frequency sounds than expected. Associate Professor Rebecca ...

University of Queensland hearing tests conducted across kilometres of ocean off the Australian coast show humpback whales react to higher frequency sounds than expected. Associate Professor Rebecca ...

A competition calling for research projects involving so-called AI scientists shows just how fast this technology is moving. A number of startups and university teams that are building “AI scientists” ...

In 1927, Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr debated the nature of what’s known as complementarity—the idea that a photon’s dual wave-like and particle natures can’t be measured at the same time. Now, two ...

Hearing loss can stem from both genetic and non-genetic factors. Genetics contributes to a significant portion of congenital hearing loss in babies. As people age, they may experience a gradual ...

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