Ever wanted to know how the world sounds through the ears of an insect? A team of scientists at the University of Bristol have been exploring the eardrums of locusts and mosquitoes by studying how they respond to different noises. Insect’s eardrums vibrate by only a few nanometers when they detect extremely faint sounds. By using nanotechnology to study how insects hear, we can develop microphones to detect noises that the human ear and modern instruments are not able to sense.

Source:How a locust’s eardrum could lead to tiny microphones