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 ...

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 ...

Reverberation localization (echolocation) is a method of knowing the distance, direction, size, etc. of an object from the echo of the emitted sound or ultrasonic waves, and is known to be performed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[Kripthor] suspected that hunters were getting too near his house. When thinking of a way to quantify this belief he set out to build a triangulation system based on the sound of gunshots. The theory ...

Humans are born imitators. The ability to imitate others comes naturally to us and plays a major role in how we learn about the world. But imitation is not widespread in the animal kingdom. True ...