While our brains provide us with a tremendous amount of information about the sounds we hear and what they mean to us, at the most basic level, our auditory system answers two major questions about ...

Recent advances in engineering have paved the way for bioinspired acoustic sensors and cochlear devices that replicate key functionalities of the human ear. These innovative systems draw upon the ...

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, and ...