Echolocation
Batty directions, heat-resistant coral and counting barnacles
10 Mar 2021
Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn to talk about how fruit bats navigate through their sense of smell and large eyes, rather than echolocation. Researchers have discovered a cheap way of… Audio
Julee-anne Bell: seeing with sound
30 Jun 2017
Julee-anne Bell has never perceived light. The Brisbane singing teacher used to be afraid to venture out alone, but after learning echolation – a way of navigating using sound – she can now move… Video, Audio
Mel Goodale: echolocation and the brain
30 May 2015
Director of the Brain and Mind Institute at the University of Western Ontario whose research on the brains of blind people who use echolocation has discovered how their brains have been rewired so… Audio
Ultrasound Device to Help Visually-Impaired Navigate
28 Aug 2014
An electronic device has been developed which uses echolocation to alert blind people to obstacles in the environment Audio