Yale researchers discovered new cochlear hearing modes that influence how the ear amplifies sound and processes frequencies.

Yale physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of "modes" within the human ear that put important ...

The introduction of defects in these crystals (i.e., intentional disruptions in their periodic structure) can give rise to mechanical modes within the band gap, enabling the confinement of ...

Physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of 'modes' within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, and ...

The researchers also observed enhanced cooling rates and the emergence of "dark" mechanical modes, i.e., modes that did not interact with the system's cavity and retained higher energy.

During the process, they coupled two near-degenerate mechanical breathing modes via a single colocalized optical mode. The team tailored the dissipative and coherent couplings between the two ...

“But in getting to the bottom of this we stumbled onto a new set of low frequency mechanical modes that the cochlea likely supports.” In humans, sound is converted into electrical signals in the ...