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Deafness is a huge burden for economies and individuals. This is particularly true in developing countries. Solutions need to take into account not just costs, but the rights of individuals too.
Nearly all Indigenous Australian children have some form of otitis media, a middle ear infection that often leads to hearing loss.
Can wearing earplugs often cause tinnitus, or infection, or headaches? Let’s look at the facts.
Studying the way insects hear and make their own sounds is inspiring new hearing technology.
The term APD describes several disorders that result in a breakdown in the listening process. It is most common in primary school, affecting more than 5% of children.
Think it’s stressful visiting a police station? Try doing it when you can’t hear.
Audiology services are government registered for many – such as for children up to the age of 26 and veterans. But many fall through the cracks and rely on the self-regulation of the industry.
Six tips to get rid of that song stuck in your head, based on the latest research.
It’s not only Brian Johnson who’s at risk of deafness – are you around music a lot?
One South African student’s experience with live captioning technology may be the start of an exciting change for deaf university students who do not use sign language.
Beyond the cool factor of figuring out hominin hearing capacities two million years ago, these findings could help answer the tantalizing question of when did human vocalized language first emerge.
Adding a camera that can work out where sound is coming from could make hearing aids smarter.
Chronic environmental noise, like cars zooming past or airplanes overhead, can make children struggle with reading comprehension and affect their memory.
The intensity and the consistent presence of sonic textures such as machine noise, distorted high-frequency sounds, midrange drones, sub-sonic hums and the like have significantly shaped the contexts of our hearing.
Alligators can pinpoint the source of sounds because of large, air-filled channels connecting the two middle ears, new research…
A century-old mystery about how ancient freshwater fishes breathe has finally been put to rest, thanks to a study published today in Nature Communications by me and a team of ichthyologists. The fishes…
Adults who took music lessons as children but haven’t played in decades have a faster brain response to speech sound than…
Words that make objects appear from thin air are generally the stuff of the magical worlds of Harry Potter or The Hobbit. But a new experiment has been shown that words can make objects easier to recognise…
Just when you thought it was safe to have a nap on a train, the window you’re resting your head on might try to sell you a new app, skin cream or tickets to the theatre. Sky Deutschland has announced a…
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