In an effort to better understand how the inner ear can hear the quietest of noises, researchers from Yale University ...

Yale physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of "modes" within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, ...

The cochlea is the spiral-shaped organ in your inner ear. There’s a main difference between cochlear implants and standard hearing aids: Hearing aids act as an amplifier to make sounds louder.