It may sound like a scene from "Nosferatu," but research from the University of East Anglia shows that humans can use bat-like echolocation skills to judge the distance of objects. The new study ...

It may seem remarkable, but significant evidence shows that humans could learn this sound-based “superpower” with some practice.

Some blind people are able to use the sound of echoes to "see" where things are and to navigate their environment. Now, a new study finds that these people may even be using visual parts of their ...

It turns out that the shape of the skull in bat species is related to the specific frequencies of sonar that they produce. This in turn is often influenced by the way in which they emit sound for ...