Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...

An ongoing surge of U.S. retail closures is expected to persist in 2025 as legacy companies face relentless competition from eCommerce platforms Shein and Temu. Coresight Research, a firm ...

Since opening in 2017, Mac Tabby cat cafes in North Carolina have helped hundreds of cats find their forever home. The cafes have saved a few lucky humans too. Across the U.S., the number of cat ...

"The pet gate is $4,” she said, scrolling through the app. Low prices but mixed quality Temu and SHEIN were the two most downloaded shopping apps of 2024 with hundreds of millions of downloads.

Scarlett Johansson and Jenna Bush Hager sealed their friendship by getting their ears pierced live on TODAY with Jenna & Friends — with only a little hand-holding required. Jenna and her guest ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of gene-editing experiments. When you purchase through links on our site ...

“Do you source cotton from China?” A simple question, but one Shein failed to answer eight times during a recent hearing with the UK Business and Trade Committee. What policymakers really wanted to ...

If alternate universes do exist, there is probably one where the dominant cartoon animal (assuming they all have one) is not a mouse named Mickey, but a cat named Felix. And in this alternate ...

A Maine coon cat named Mittens became an accidental jetsetter this month when her cage was overlooked in a plane cargo hold and she made three trips in 24 hours between New Zealand and Australia.

pointed ears of a cat or the floppy ears of an elephant—which are each attuned to the sounds that are important to that animal. In some mammals, the ear cartilage has even become further ...