Set of cut marks identified on the left temporal bone of the skull. Insets: enlarged images of the cut marks in the left ear, next to the mastoid. Credit: S. Diaz-Navarro et al., 2022 ...

The mastoid is the hollow bone behind the ear, while the middle ear is an air-filled space containing three small bones that help us to hear. The findings were published in the journal JAMA ...

Newsweek spoke to the centenarian's grandson who said that the hospital was compared to "hell" back in the 1920s.

Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a tool routinely used to diagnose and plan treatment for eye diseases, has now been ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a tool routinely used to diagnose and plan treatment for eye diseases, has now been ...

The CT scans revealed an infection of Rafiki’s mastoid bone behind his right ear, along with a severe middle and inner ear infection.

Skull in which the evidence was found, at the El Pendón site (Scientific Reports (2022) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-06223-6) ...