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 ...

Nocturnal bats use cues from the sunset to calibrate their magnetic compasses for night-time navigation. The sun makes more sense than other stars, if only because it is closer (and thus bigger). I ...

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