Evolution has left humans with many vestigial traits—remnants of once-useful biological features that serve little or no ...

The inner ear is responsible for our sense of balance and the ability to stabilize our gaze, even when we are moving around. However, a new study in Nature Communications discovered this is not the ...

In the 1995 film Waterworld, severe climate change has caused global changes to the Earth’s surface, forcing humans to live on boats or floating cities and scrape out a living on the high seas. It ...

The ear is a marvelous, humble organ. It powers our hearing and also our balance, keeping us upright and connected to the world around us. In return, ear doctors tend to ask that we follow one very ...