The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding a new research project, entitled Quantenrepeater.Net (QR.N), which aims to demonstrate the viability of quantum repeaters over ...

The auricular muscles, which enabled our distant ancestors to move their ears for better hearing, activate when people try to ...

Millions of years ago, our ancestors were able to move their ears to better capture sounds, much like dogs or cats. But with ...

Humans lost the ability to move their ears 25 million years ago, but new research reveals their muscles still react when we strain to listen.

Although modern humans cannot move their ears around in the same way that dogs, cats, and horses do, the findings suggest ...

Scientists call this feature a “neural fossil”. It’s a remnant of a system that once helped our ancestors pinpoint the ...

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling ...

A study was conducted to assess the safety and tolerability of the tetravalent live-attenuated dengue vaccine Qdenga®, which received marketing approval in Germany in 2022. The study evaluated vaccine ...

Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability ...