Why do ears pop on airplanes?
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Why do ears pop on airplanes?
You're sitting on the plane, and suddenly your ears feel stuffed, like someone gently pressed cotton into them. Then — pop! — they clear. What just happened inside your head?
Inside your skull, behind each eardrum, sits a small air-filled room called the middle ear. It's about the size of a pea. This tiny room needs to match the air pressure outside your head, or your eardrum gets pushed in or pulled out — and that feels weird.
