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Soundscapes: Training Blind People To See Shapes Using Sound

... "It's just like bats and dolphins use sounds and echolocation to 'see' using their ears." The researchers first taught ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2014 - 4:34pm - 0 attachments

Bats Use Water Ripples To Hunt Frogs

... Science , researchers found evidence that bats use echolocation — a natural form of sonar — to detect these ripples and home ... that they can detect these ripples, most likely with echolocation. However, bats appear to lose this advantage if the area around ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2014 - 10:22am - 0 attachments

Risky Ripples: Frog's Love Song May Summon Kiss Of Death

... that sense them. Bats perceive the ripples too, using echolocation, which shows that the costs associated with communication can be ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2014 - 8:54am - 0 attachments

Convergent Evolution: Why Bats And Whales Act A Lot Alike

... a gram, they share something in common. They both use echolocation, biological sonar, for hunting. Echolocation systems are one of nature's most successful specializations. About ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2013 - 8:00am - 0 attachments

Echolocation's Convergent Evolution: Genetic Similarities Between Bats And Dolphins

... and scientists who investigated the genomic basis for echolocation, one of the most well-known examples of convergent evolution, ... the frequency of the process at a genomic level.  Echolocation is a complex physical trait that involves the production, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2013 - 1:25pm - 0 attachments

Weekend Science: Learn To Echolocate Like A Bat

... a method for really training people in the art of echolocation. With the help of a headset consisting of a microphone and a pair ... space. Overcoming the precedence effect to learn echolocation. Credit: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München  How ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 1 2013 - 6:00am - 0 attachments

Galleria Mellonella: At 300 KHz, Greater Wax Moth Is The World's Most 'Extreme Hearing' Animal

... in the animal kingdom, this moth is ready for any echolocation call adaptations made by the bat in the on-going bat–moth ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2013 - 1:25pm - 0 attachments

Of Bats, Flight And Immunity To Viruses

... bombers of the animal kingdom. Equipped with radar-like echolocation, the dark form of the bat allows this creature to stay in the ...

Blog Post - Bharat T Srinivasa - Feb 21 2013 - 12:05pm - 0 attachments

Real-Life Robotech Mecha Have Finally Arrived

Suidobashi Heavy Industry of Japan has finally found a way to make (a) work or (b) laser tag interesting to me; put me inside a giant robot.  But to get the  "Kuratas mecha" you will have to spend $1.35 million. You will want to, becau ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 31 2012 - 4:54pm - 0 attachments

The Missing Link Fallacy

The comments thread for an article that I wrote a couple of weeks ago has suddenly been swamped by the replies of a young-earth creationist. Perhaps I should have expected it, with an article about hoaxed fossils. He presents an orgy of anecdotes that ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Feb 3 2011 - 6:57am - 0 attachments