Thirteen unresponsive ICU patients changed a tone using thought alone
In a Columbia study of 41 brain-injured patients who could not move or speak, a third shifted a beep’s pitch through bedside EEG, and…
Older adults in four countries want hearing care from a clinic
Surveyed before over-the-counter hearing aids existed, more than 9,000 people over 60 picked doctors and audiologists over shops, ads and mail order.
RNID publishes a playbook for streaming theatre sound to hearing aids
The UK charity and hearing-aid maker GN wrote a six-chapter guide for theatres adopting Auracast, which broadcasts a show’s audio straight into hearing aids…
Musicians are slightly harder to fool with the ventriloquism illusion
In 70 Australian students, trained musicians let a flash of light drag their sense of where a sound came from 1.6 degrees less than…
Hearing-aid users died less often in a 64,000-person, four-country study
Across Australia, Iceland, the US and Norway, people with hearing loss who wore hearing aids had a 9 to 15% lower risk of death,…
Venice’s Biennale Musica runs a deep-listening room until October 24
Caterina Barbieri’s “A Child of Sound” brings 130 artists and 18 world premieres to venues from the Arsenale to a women’s prison on the…
Aberdeen’s soundfestival makes listening itself the theme this year
From October 22 to 31, more than 30 events across Aberdeenshire, including string quartets bowed with fern fronds and a Gaelic birdsong soundwalk on…
Stanford physicists watched a single quantum of sound vanish
A chip-scale vibrating crystal held its motion for about 2 milliseconds, long enough for a qubit to catch it dropping from one energy step…
Demant’s hearing-aid sales grew 17% in the third quarter
The Oticon maker raised its 2026 outlook on a strong launch of its Reveal hearing aid, and now expects the whole market to grow…
A singing digital swamp from Berlin’s lost wetlands opens at MoMA
Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Berl-Berl, built with the musician Arca from field recordings and old Slavic wayfinding songs, runs in New York into March.
One missing gene cost female mice their hearing early, not males
Without the energy-transport gene Slc16a5, female mice lost high-frequency hearing by 6 weeks while males kept theirs at 12, a UT Dallas team reports.
A Case Western lab is turning live brainwaves back into music
Revived from 1960s experimental music, the Brain Media Lab plays EEG signals as sound, with a David Rosenboom concert in Cleveland on February 14.
Two siblings born deaf now hear after a one-time gene therapy
A brother treated at 3 and a sister treated at 1 at Cincinnati Children’s were in the trial behind Otarmeni, the hearing gene therapy…
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