When you think of echolocation, you probably think of bats or dolphins. But echolocation has also been used as a way for blind people to navigate, too. Despite the skill's usefulness, few blind people ...

Blind humans have been known to use echolocation to "see" their environment, but even sighted people can learn the skill, a new study finds. Study participants learned to echolocate, or glean ...

In a world’s first, researchers from the US and UK have created an impression of a submerged human as recorded by a dolphin’s echolocation. To do it, a team led by Jack Kassewitz of SpeakDolphin.com ...

When Albert Einstein famously declared “reality is merely an illusion,” what he really implying was that reality as we see it is relative to its observer. For humans, it’s dominated by the colors of ...

Ever wonder what the world looks like through the eyes of another person? Or how about from the perspective of another species all together? SpeakDolphin, a scientific research organization dedicated ...

Bats are well known for their ability to “see” with sound, using echolocation to find food and their roosts. Some bats may also conceive a map made of sounds from their home range. This map can help ...

Human echolocation operates as a viable 'sense,' working in tandem with other senses to deliver information to people with visual impairment, according to new research. Ironically, the proof for the ...

It’s midnight in a pitch-dark parking lot. Trying to unlock your car, you fumble and drop the keys. You squat down and run your hand across the invisible pavement. To the left you feel a firm, rubbery ...

Experiments carried out by LMU researchers now refute a central postulate of the conventional model of echolocation. "Up to now, it has been assumed that the echoes provide a kind of acoustic image of ...

The first ever 3D prints of images contained in dolphin echolocation sounds have been produced—including one of a human being seen from a dolphin's point of view. Jack Kassewitz, from SpeakDolphin.com ...