Portland, Ore. – A MEMS-based implant holds the promise of an artificial ear that would let the deaf hear without external electronics. The device mimics the snail-shaped structure of the inner ear, ...

Shortly before his death in August 2025, A. James Hudspeth and his team in the Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University achieved a groundbreaking technological advancement: the ...

For the first time, researchers have shown that terahertz imaging can be used to visualize internal details of the mouse cochlea with micron-level spatial resolution. The non-invasive method could ...

Cochlear implants are among the most successful neural prostheses on the market. These artificial ears have allowed nearly 1 million people globally with severe to profound hearing loss to either ...

Engineers in the US have built the first life-sized fully micromachined artificial cochlea. The device made by Robert White and Karl Grosh at the University of Michigan works in the same way as the ...

Using this approach, the researchers captured real-time images of the cochlea in action. OCT lets us look down the ear canal, through the eardrum and bone into the cochlea, and measure how it's ...