The bottom of the ocean might be the last place you’d think to look for a cure to human hearing loss, but that’s exactly where the authors of a report published in the Journal of Experimental Biology hope to find one. The idea was born as the biologists studied the remarkable ability of sea anemones […]

In light of the startling realization that more than 1 billion people worldwide are at risk of developing hearing loss, scientists at a number of research institutions are working overtime to find a way to reverse the effects of hearing damage. Cochlear implants have come a long way in recent years, but they’re not without […]