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You’ve heard that space is curved – that’s gravity. You’ve also been told that you cannot really understand curved space. Sure, you can come to know curvy mathematics by studying general relativity or differential geometry, but you cannot grasp curved spa ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Sep 30 2010 - 9:25am - 0 attachments

... into the sub-realm of the microchiroptera (bats that use echolocation to 'see').   Their moniker (Mexican free-tailed ...

Article - Jane de Lartigue - Jul 30 2010 - 4:48pm - 0 attachments

I haven't contributed a single thing to the platypus genome project, but since my desk sits one floor above where people and robots broke the platypus DNA into chunks, cloned those chunks into bacteria, sequenced the pieces of DNA, and used massive ...

Article - Michael White - May 12 2008 - 1:02am - 2 attachments

... then suggests that bats flew before they developed their echolocation ability." Bats represent one of the largest and most diverse ... lacks features in and around the ear seen in bats that use echolocation to navigate and hunt. The structure of its feet and ankles, which ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2008 - 5:44pm - 1 attachment

... professor of psychology, who directs interdisciplinary bat echolocation research in the university's Auditory Neuroethology Lab. Bat sonar (echolocation) obeys the same physical laws as the sonar on a submarine: bats ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2010 - 7:06pm - 0 attachments

... baby wolf, it's a delicious deer. ) If you hunt by echolocation , your teacher has you listen to it. ( Ping, baby whale, it's a ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 29 2009 - 11:51am - 0 attachments

... de Henares (UAH) says that human beings can develop echolocation, the system of acoustic signals used by dolphins and bats to ... they say, to make use of human beings' under-exploited echolocation skills. Much cooler than Man-Bat.  ©Marvel Comics Group ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2009 - 5:22pm - 0 attachments

... ability to translate dimensional information from their echolocation sonic beam. The CymaScope has the ability to visualize dimensional ... identify themselves while click trains are involved in echolocation. Chirps are thought to represent components of language. Reid ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2008 - 6:59pm - 0 attachments

... but he gets around by making clicking noises and using echolocation to visualize the obstacles his radar sends back. Unless he was ...

Article - Cash Simpson - Jun 30 2009 - 10:23am - 0 attachments

... use their voices for communication.  Instead, they use echolocation to navigate their surroundings but they can also use it, and ... 5 in PLoS Computational Biology, explains how bats use echolocation for more than just spatial knowledge and it might also help ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2009 - 9:14pm - 0 attachments