Father and son Jonas and Chris Nordwall came to Juneau from Portland to take a look at the inner workings of the only ...

The presence of two types of hair cells, the inner and outer hair cells, in the organ of Corti was appreciated nearly a 100 years ago but the function of the two has only become clear in the last 20 ...

By winding itself in a spiral, the organ takes up less space. The bony chambers (purple) of the inner ear form precise geometric shapes (see Figure 4). There are five sensory epithelia in the balance ...