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People wiggle ears to hear
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
|March 2025
Can you wiggle your ears? It’s a trick only some people can do, but it turns out that the muscles used to do it also activate when humans are trying to listen to something.
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The discovery was made by scientists at Saarland University in Germany. They ran an experiment where they got 20 people with typical hearing to take three audio (sound) tests.
This story is from the March 2025 edition of The Week Junior Science+Nature UK.
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