"As blind as a bat" is a lament you'll often hear in the presence of lost pairs of glasses, boneheaded referees, and anyone perceived as mentally oblivious, but if you call someone blind as a bat, you ...

Could bats' cave-dwelling nocturnal habits over eons enhanced their echolocation acoustic abilities, but also spurred their loss of vision? A new study led by Bruno Simões, Emma Teeling and colleagues ...

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You’ve probably heard the saying “as blind as a bat,” right? It’s been repeated for centuries, but it couldn’t be further ...

Daniel Kish is blind. But he navigates the world by issuing a stream of clicks from his mouth and then listening as the sound of the clicks echoes off buildings, objects, even landscaping to create a ...

Ruben Graham-Morris, a blind eight-year-old boy, has mastered echolocation to get around on his own. Ruben was born with Leber's congenital amaurosis, a genetic disease that left him blind from birth.

After years of searching across Long Island for a space to open a tasting room, Paul Dlugokencky of Blind Bat Brewery followed his sonar back to his hometown of Centerport. Blind Bat Brewery Bistro & ...

For some blind individuals, sound can become a way to see the world around them through a process called echolocation. A new BuzzFeed video profiles Daniel Kish, who lost his sight just after his ...