Today's robots primarily get by with vision and touch. Giving them another sense, hearing, improves robot perception, researchers find.

Using opioids can cause tinnitus, partial or total loss of hearing acuity, and even permanent deafness, a new study shows.

Using a hearing aid could help people ward off cognitive decline or even help them improve their thinking, researchers find.

Research with barn owls sparked the idea for a new type of hearing test: one that focuses on eye dilation.

"Informal observations of Deaf infants interacting with their Deaf parents have suggested that these infants possess keen control over their eye-gaze behavior."

Older adults who get hearing aids for newly diagnosed hearing loss have a lower risk of dementia, depression, and anxiety diagnoses over the next three years, research finds.

Investigation into inflammation in a sound-processing region of mouse brains suggests future tinnitus treatments.

Brain maps offer evidence that podcasts, audiobooks, and reading fire up our brains in very similar ways.

Detecting and managing hearing and vision impairments early on could help older adults live more years in good health.

Improved understanding of how the ear's cochlea works could improve hearing tests and hearing aids.