How Luna Moths Use Sound Waves for Camouflage
Some butterfly species sport striking patterns on their wings which they use to visually camouflage themselves from…
How Ancient Whales Turned Sound Into a Killing Tactic
Say hello to the “Echo Hunter,” a 27 million-year-old toothed whale that’s helping scientists understand how these…
Bats Respond to Too Much Noise the Same Way Children Do
Bats find their way around at night by emitting noise and listening to the way it bounces back to them. But since bats…
Unprecedented Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Submerged Human
In a world’s first, researchers from the US and UK have created an impression of a submerged human as recorded by a…
New Brain Scans Show How Dolphins Use Sound to See
Most of us consider vision and hearing to be two separate senses. But dolphins use sound to see, emitting clicks,…
Watching a human navigate like a bat is impressive
Daniel Kish, who lost his eyesight to cancer, is now an expert in echolocation - the technique that a bat uses to…
A New Echolocation Algorithm Can Map Spaces Based on Sound Alone
There’s plenty of precedent for echolocation in the natural world: bats can navigate based on the echo of their…
New echo-detecting app could allow humans to 'see' like bats
By using five microphones, a speaker, and a sophisticated new echolocation algorithm, researchers have successfully…
Bats can instantly change the shape of their ears just to hear better
Bats rely on their hearing more than any other mammal. After all, bats navigate the night sky by hearing the results of…
Bats Make the Same Sound SAM's Do When They Have Radar-Lock
You know what I'm talking about; that accelerating high-pitched beep bleeding into a squeal as the projectile locks-on…
Bats' muscles are the fastest of any mammal ever discovered
Bat mouths are already pretty much completely awesome, thanks to their amazing echolocation abilities. So this almost…
Before Radar, Militaries Used Gigantic Headphones for Land-Based Sonar
Radar is wonderful, sure, but militaries didn't always have the benefit of radar to pinpoint enemy locations. Before…
Mapping the Brains of Human Echolocators
Vision and hearing are generally regarded as two very different senses. Unless, of course, you can echolocate. Now,…
The Man Who Sees With His Ears
Daniel Kish lost his eyesight when he was 13 months old. For most of his youth, he functioned fine without a walking…
Echolocation Forces Poor Bats to Nosedive Into Metal
It ain't easy being a bat, what with hanging upside down, and extinction threats. But fascinating research shows…
Watch amazing slow-motion footage of bats using echolocation to find water
Scientists know how bats use echolocation to find insects, but how do they detect bodies of water? To find out the…
Discoveries That Explain How Bats And Dolphins Navigate - And Communicate
Bats and dolphins have something in common: They both use "echolocation," or sonar, to navigate the air and water. Now…
Blind Children Can Learn Daredevil's Echolocation
Blind superhero Daredevil could identify his surroundings by listening to sounds as they bounced off objects. Now a…
Can Humans Awaken Their Bat-Senses?
We may not all have pointy ears and sharp teeth, but Spanish scientists are convinced that inside every human lurks the…
Air Force Wants Bat-Senses In Micro Spy Drones For "Urban Combat"
We've seen bat-like drones, and even heard of genuine bat weaponry, but now the Pentagon is after micro UAVs with…