Bats are nocturnal hunters and use echolocation to orientate themselves by emitting high-frequency ultrasonic sounds in rapid succession and evaluating the calls’ reflections. Yet, they have retained ...

In the near future, when natural disasters hit, drones may have an easier time locating survivors thanks to a development by researchers at the University of Michigan. Oftentimes, in the wake of a ...

A pod of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) swimming at the Las Cuevitas dive site in the Revillagigedo Archipelago. We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing ...

Dolphins, pigeons, and locusts, oh my! Rather than retaining the negative connotation from Dorothy's original fear-of-animals version of that phrase in the "Wizard of Oz," a trio of new studies by ...

According to recent research by German and Israeli scientists, bats’ echolocation maps are far more expansive than previously thought, allowing them to navigate journeys spanning several kilometers.

The research team has shown that bats can use echolocation to know where they are and how to move over distances of several kilometers, demonstrating navigational capabilities even after being ...

Many species of bats use echolocation to avoid obstacles like tree branches and hunt small insects as they fly through the dark. But it turns out echolocation for bats is much more than just a ...

(CN) — Bats might not lead the most exciting lives, but they do have one real-life superpower that aids in their evening hunts for insect dinners: echolocation. In a new study published by the ...

Real-life stories of blind people, such as David Kish, using click-based echolocation to navigate their way through their environment have inspired studies into how to help others to do it. In 2021, ...

New research reveals that the brains of both sighted and blind individuals adapt similarly when learning to use sound echoes for navigating the world without vision. This groundbreaking study, ...

New research from our Department of Psychology has shown that the brains of sighted and blind people adapt in a similar way when they learn to use sound echoes to understand the world without vision.