Researchers at the University of Washington have developed "semantic hearing" technology that blends noise cancellation with customizable sound filtering.

The experimental technology uses deep-learning algorithms on a connected smartphone ...

New research confirms that repeated early childhood ear infections if left untreated, can considerably impact children's auditory processing and verbal skills later on.

University of Florida scientists assessed over 100 children ages 5-10, finding ...

Astrophysicist Jason Nordhaus of the Rochester Institute of Technology has secured a $313,000 National Science Foundation grant to boost underrepresented groups in physics research.

His initiative connects promising deaf, hard-of-hearing, and ...

New research shows that training your brain using a smartphone app can reduce tinnitus, the perception of sound without an external source.

Tinnitus is irritating and intrusive and can't be turned off as long as the brain focuses on it—and focusing ...

Adults can now buy certain types of hearing aids without a prescription. But for children, over-the-counter hearing aids risk delays in brain and language-skills development.

What to know: Pediatric audiologists play a crucial ...

A major study from Denmark using data from 573,088 people found that hearing loss significantly raises dementia risk in older adults. However, the increase was substantially less for those who used hearing aids, suggesting hearing aids help delay cognitive ...

New research reveals adults regularly employing hearing aids see a significant 24% decreased risk of premature death compared to people with hearing loss who did ...

New research brings hope if you’re tormented by tinnitus (ringing in the ears). Researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear have linked tinnitus to a loss of nerve fibers in the auditory nerve.

• The study included people with tinnitus ...

Untreated hearing loss contributes to an increased risk of dementia, though the link between the two is still unclear. Recent studies, however, suggest a likely cause.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have discovered that ...