As a graduate student at Harvard in 1939, Robert Galambos made a name for himself with a pioneering experiment involving flying bats and their use of sound waves to navigate in the dark. In the ...

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New research shows that blind and visually impaired people have the potential to use echolocation, similar to that used by bats and dolphins, to determine the location of an object. The study examined ...

Meet two blind people who use echolocation to live a "sighted" life. Aug. 9, 2006 — -- When bats go out to hunt, they send out sonar signals at such high frequencies and in such rapid bursts that ...

Scientists have discovered the fossilized skull of a 24- to 27 million-year-old ancient whale, proving that echolocation evolved very early on among toothed whale predators. The extraordinarily ...

Clicks, squeaks, chirps, and buzzes...though they may be difficult to distinguish to our ears, such sounds are used by echolocating animals to paint a vivid picture of their surroundings. By ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

A little over a decade ago, prestin was found to be a key gene responsible for hearing in mammals. A new study has shown that prestin has also independently evolved to play a critical role in the ...

A roughly 27-million-year-old fossilized skull echoes growing evidence that ancient whales could navigate using high-frequency sound. Discovered over a decade ago in a drainage ditch by an amateur ...

They can't tell fortunes and they're useless with the stock market, but bats are quite skilled at predicting one thing: where to find dinner. Bats calculate where their prey is headed by building ...

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) A little over a decade ago, prestin was found to be a key gene responsible for hearing in mammals. Prestin makes a ...