'You learn to adjust': Navigating life with hearing loss, masks and volleyball

Sydney Hayes had a hard time hearing things on the volleyball court before coronavirus changed everything. That’s just part of life with degenerative hearing loss, which the Eastern Hancock sophomore and her eighth-grade sister have had since childhood.

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Hearing loss in naked mole-rats is an advantage, not a hardship

With mutations in genes associated with hearing, naked mole-rats can barely hear the constant squeaking they use to communicate. This hearing loss, which is strange for such social, vocal animals, is an adaptive, beneficial trait, according to new findings published in the journal Current Biology.

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