Sniffers show that humans can track scents, and that two nostrils are better than one
...nce, much like they compare information from their ears in order to locate a sound. In a paper appearing... brain compares the sounds entering a person's two ears to locate a source. Until now, many researchers thought this was unlikely because a mammal's nostril...To elude bats, a moth keeps its hearing in tune
...g calls of their nocturnal predator, the bat. Moth ears are among the simplest in the insect worldthey hav...all eardrum. Previously, it was thought that these ears were only partially sensitive to the sound frequencies commonly used by bats, and it would seem like...Global study concludes 'attack rate' of flu in kids is 55 percent lower with nasal spray vaccine
...llness damages the mucus membranes of the sinuses, ears and trachea, he explained. Belshe said that many people do not realize just how serious a disease influenza is and how the illness can be potentially deadly in the elderly. "Some cases of the flu are mild, but many cases are not mild," he said....Robotic cameras join search for 'Holy Grail of bird-watching'
...tly. Remote systems that can serve as our eyes and ears are a big advantage." Song also noted that using the camera extends the search season to the entire year. "Usually people do this type of bird-watching in the winter because there are fewer leaves, making it easier to spot the woodpecker," Song s...New bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies
...pecies, nearly indistinguishable to human eyes and ears and consequently overlooked in centuries of bird studies. The barcoders also successfully logged the DNA attributes of 87 bat species of Guyana and reveal six new species, characterized by unique genetic make-up. One of the new species, a look-alik...Researchers find suntan's 'master regulator'
... painkiller. Fishers team further found that the ears and tails of mice lacking p53 lose the ability to tan. Similarly, the induction of -endorphin by UV also depends on p53. "The induction of -endorphin appears to be hard-wired to the tanning pathway," Fisher said. "This might explain addictive behav...Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles
...Robert Dooling ( dooling@psyc.umd.edu ), the inner ears of archosaurs (birds, crocodilians, and extinct dinosaurs) have highly similar structures. The researchers found a relationship between the body mass of a species and the size of a sensory structure in the inner ear known as the basilar papilla. Sm...Essential tones of music rooted in human speech
... particular notes used in music sound right to our ears because of the way our vocal apparatus makes the s... chromatic scale notes in music sound right to our ears because they match the formant ratios we are exposed to all the time in speech, even though we are q...UVa researchers restore genes in human inner ear cells
...ene into human hair cells harvested from the inner ears of patients with hearing loss. Our results show that gene therapy reagents are effective in human inner ear tissue. Taken together with the results from another group of scientists who showed that similar gene therapy compounds can produce new ha...On-farm research shows farmers that they can use less nitrogen
...With excess nitrogen, the corn grew taller but the ears were smaller and produced less grain. "The corn that received less nitrogen was shorter, sturdier and produced more corn in the silage," Kiechle said. "I had been happy to harvest 18 tons of corn silage on my clay soils, so when we harvested 20 ton...Study examines cause of hearing loss for patients with certain genetic disease
...nts with von Hippel-Lindau disease and ELSTs in 38 ears were identified. the most common ELSTassociated... in 31 patients (89 percent) or 34 of the affected ears (89 percent) and was frequently moderate or profound. Other less frequent ELSTassociated findings in...Ability to listen to 2 things at once is largely inherited, says twin study
... da, and ka) were played into their right and left ears simultaneously, and then tried to name both words or syllables. In two other tests, volunteers listened to digitally altered one-syllable words played into the right ear and tried to identify the word. One test artificially filtered out high-pitched ...