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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like some bats and marine mammals, people can develop expert echolocation skills, in which they produce a clicking sound with their mouths and listen to the reflected sound waves to 'see' their ...

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 ...

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 ...