A recent study by a team of researchers led by TU Darmstadt has found that tiny amounts of liquid can navigate their way ...

Bats are well known for their ability to “see” with sound, using echolocation to find food and their roosts. Some bats may also conceive a map made of sounds from their home range. This map can help ...

It may sound like a scene from "Nosferatu," but research from the University of East Anglia shows that humans can use ...

Most of us associate echolocation with bats. These amazing creatures are able to chirp at frequencies beyond the limit of our hearing, and they use the reflected sound to map the world around them. It ...

It may seem remarkable, but significant evidence shows that humans could learn this sound-based “superpower” with some practice.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists from diverse universities conducted controlled experiments to determine how big-eared bats detect insects sitting on ...

Echolocation is a technique that uses sound waves to find and detect objects. Some studies suggest that some blind people have developed echolocation to better navigate the world around them. Some ...

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 ...