Flying bats do not travel through silence. Every call they make comes back layered with sound from leaves, branches, trunks, and open gaps. In a real woodland corridor, those echoes arrive together, ...

In new research published in PeerJ, researchers from the University of Washington, University of Texas at Austin and Oregon Institute of Technology, led by undergraduate student Abby Burtner, have ...

Every day, our brain takes countless fleeting experiences—from walks on the beach to presentations at work—and transforms them into long-term memories. How exactly this works remains a mystery, but ...

For the past 25 years, Professor of Engineering and Biology Sharon Swartz and Professor of Engineering Kenneth Breuer ’82 P’14 P’16 have been fascinated by animal flight. The two professors have ...

Bats are not only masters of aerodynamic flight — they’re skillful at multitasking while flying, too. By Rachel Nuwer Some humans like to think of themselves as good multitaskers, but bats may do it ...

A 1611 painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder depicts greater noctule bats hunting birds in flight, predating scientific evidence ...