The human ear has a snail-shaped, fluid-filled structure called the cochlea which plays a crucial role in hearing. It detects sound as vibrations and converts those into nerve signals for the brain.

Concluding that female ears can be up to 6 kHz sharper than male ears in some populations, the team said women not only show “heightened cochlear sensitivity” – referring to the fluid ...

A new study shows that women have more sensitive hearing than men and that where people live — urban vs. rural or high vs.

Police are hunting a blonde woman in a Newcastle football shirt after a man was headbutted and had his ear bitten as fans celebrated winning the Carabao Cup. A man in his 20s was assaulted at the ...

Anyone who recalls whispering at the dinner table as a child likely also has memories of being overheard and reprimanded by a sharp-eared mother – even as an oblivious father ploughed through ...