Although wind turbines may be a valuable source of eco-friendly energy, they do have at least one drawback – bats are frequently killed by their spinning blades. A promising new system is designed to ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

Studying insect-eating bats isn’t easy: they’re tiny, fly at night, and navigate using ultrasonic frequencies far above human hearing range. But experts in India have come up with a potential solution ...

A long-standing mystery about how wild bats navigate complex environments in complete darkness with remarkable precision, has been solved in a new University of Bristol-led study. The findings are ...

Scientists have unveiled a remarkable 'living GPS' in fruit bats, tracking their brain activity as they navigated freely. Researchers discovered an internal compass, with specific neurons activating ...

To find ways to improve human-made active sensing, scientists worldwide study the sonar systems of bats and dolphins. Active sensors are incorporated into a number of technologies, such as meteorology ...