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Sonar

Bats flying near Bracken Cave, Texas.

For the future of self-driving technology, look to … bats?

Science

Scientists still aren’t sure how bats avoid colliding with one another in swarms. Solving the mysteries of their “biological sonar” could give us clues for our own technology.

Environmental, indigenous groups accuse Navy of damaging marine mammals

Environment

Teaching Blind Children to ‘See’ With Their Ears

Trying to Silence Navy Sonar

A Whale of a Case

Sound-off on Sonar

Three years ago, whales and dolphins beached themselves on the coast of the Bahamas. The U.S. Navy later acknowledged that its use of a powerful sonar system damaged the mammals’ auditory systems, which may have caused the beachings. Ken Balcomb is a whale researcher and a former naval officer who’s been campaigning to end sonar […]