Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BOSTON – Daniel Kish discussed here at Optometry’s Meeting how he uses echolocation to “see” his surroundings ...

This Tech Note column appeared in the December 2020 issue as "Cut the Clutter." Subscribe to Discover magazine for more stories like this. One rainy night in March 2007, graduate student Ralph Simon ...

Human echolocation receives a boost through a new research and offers the scope to help the visually impaired in future. Credit: Thaler et al.; CC-BY Ever wondered why bats can navigate in the empty ...

Many bat species emit echolocation calls and use the returning echoes to find their way, detect the presence of fluttering ...

Toothed whales use sound to find their way around, detect objects and catch fish. They can investigate their environment by making clicking sounds, and then decoding the “echoic return signal” created ...

It sounds amazing, but we can all learn to use sound to detect our surroundings, just like bats or dolphins. No eyes required. Have you ever heard the expression "as blind as a bat"? Well, it's not ...

With just a few weeks of training, you can learn to "see" objects in the dark using echolocation the same way dolphins and bats do. Ordinary people with no special skills can use tongue clicks to ...

Much like bats and dolphins, some people have developed the ability to analyze bouncing sound waves to generate a picture of their environment. Image via Flickr user poolski When a bat flies through ...

Bats are some of the most highly specialized mammals to have ever evolved. This includes not only the evolution of active flight, but also their echolocation. This ability requires the bats to produce ...

Dolphins and porpoises use echolocation for hunting and orientation. By sending out high-frequency sound, known as ultrasound, dolphins can use the echoes to determine what type of object the sound ...