Scientists find volatile compounds in ear wax may help detect Parkinson's disease earlier than traditional methods, offering a potential inexpensive screening tool.

The largest-ever genetic assessment of the woolly mammoth has yielded new insight into this elephant cousin - an icon of the Ice Age - including about its fluffy hair, small ears, cold tolerance ...

Floppy-eared dog breeds like Beagles, Cocker Spaniels and Setters look particularly adorable because of their large, cartoon-like folded ears, but those very folds make them more susceptible to ear ...

Cotton swab fibers, while appearing “nice and fuzzy,” she said, are “actually quite abrasive.” And that can cause your ear to produce more wax to protect the now-vulnerable skin.

Specifically, the researchers expressed the ABCC11 gene and variant proteins in cultured human embryonic kidney cells and showed exactly how the ABCC11 gene produces the wet-type earwax and ...

Explore which household items you can use to remove earwax blockage fast. You can also learn about some potentially dangerous techniques to avoid.

TikTok loves high-tech gadgets for scraping out ear wax. Doctors? Not so much.

Ear wax is a vital substance helps protect the ear canal from damage and infection. Under normal circumstances, you can leave the ear wax alone.

A few years ago, Stephen Trumble contacted the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and asked if they had some earwax from a blue whale. They did. In 2007, a large ship travelling off the coast ...

The best and most gentle ways to clean your ears, according to ENTs, including cleansing cloths, ear drops, and ear irrigation kits.