hearing
Blind listeners tell pitches apart better because their brains are quieter
A Georgia Tech study found the advantage is not in the ear but in less trial-to-trial noise in the brain, the same change musical…
Hearing-aid glasses from two Bose veterans go on sale at $999
Legato Frames put microphones and open-ear speakers in the arms of ordinary-looking glasses, with a strong lab score and no published study of wearers…
A vein stent for heartbeat tinnitus gets its first pivotal US trial
The FDA has cleared a California company to test a purpose-built stent for pulsatile tinnitus, with enrollment expected before the end of 2026 and…
UConn finds an ear protein raised in the blood of tinnitus patients
Prestin, the motor protein of the inner ear’s amplifier cells, ran higher in tinnitus patients across 171 participants, though not reliably enough to diagnose…
Hearing tests found four hearing-loss genes that diagnosis codes missed
A Vanderbilt team ran the same genetic search twice, once on billing codes for 61,469 people and once on audiograms from 16,057, and only…
How your ear turns air pressure into perception
From eardrum to a coiled piano keyboard inside the skull, with 15,000 hair cells that do not grow back, and a 2026 finding that…
Blocking one signal turns ear support cells into hair cells
Tel Aviv University and colleagues report in Science Advances that inhibiting the Notch pathway converts cochlear supporting cells into the sensory cells mammals cannot…
A hearing-aid sound generator beat placebo for tinnitus in France
Across six specialist clinics and 12 weeks, 88% of patients on a sound generator reported meaningful improvement, against 33% on placebo amplification.