Echolocation

A lot of amazing technologies developed at universities or corporate R&D labs never see the light of day because…

Some butterfly species sport striking patterns on their wings which they use to visually camouflage themselves from…

Say hello to the “Echo Hunter,” a 27 million-year-old toothed whale that’s helping scientists understand how these…

Bats find their way around at night by emitting noise and listening to the way it bounces back to them. But since…

In a world’s first, researchers from the US and UK have created an impression of a submerged human as recorded by a…

Most of us consider vision and hearing to be two separate senses. But dolphins use sound to see, emitting clicks,…

Daniel Kish, who lost his eyesight to cancer, is now an expert in echolocation - the technique that a bat uses to…

There’s plenty of precedent for echolocation in the natural world: bats can navigate based on the echo of their…

By using five microphones, a speaker, and a sophisticated new echolocation algorithm, researchers have successfully…

Bats rely on their hearing more than any other mammal. After all, bats navigate the night sky by hearing the results…

You know what I'm talking about; that accelerating high-pitched beep bleeding into a squeal as the projectile…

Bat mouths are already pretty much completely awesome, thanks to their amazing echolocation abilities. So this…

Radar is wonderful, sure, but militaries didn't always have the benefit of radar to pinpoint enemy locations. Before…

Vision and hearing are generally regarded as two very different senses. Unless, of course, you can echolocate. Now,…

Daniel Kish lost his eyesight when he was 13 months old. For most of his youth, he functioned fine without a walking…

It ain't easy being a bat, what with hanging upside down, and extinction threats. But fascinating research shows…

Scientists know how bats use echolocation to find insects, but how do they detect bodies of water? To find out the…

Bats and dolphins have something in common: They both use "echolocation," or sonar, to navigate the air and water.…

Blind superhero Daredevil could identify his surroundings by listening to sounds as they bounced off objects. Now a…

We may not all have pointy ears and sharp teeth, but Spanish scientists are convinced that inside every human lurks…