Jamming bats’ echolocation with ultrasound is showing promise in reducing fatalities at wind energy facilities. Wind turbines are a valuable source of renewable energy, but they’re eco-unfriendly in ...

Studying insect-eating bats isn’t easy: they’re tiny, fly at night, and navigate using ultrasonic frequencies far above human hearing range. But experts in India have come up with a potential solution ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bats have long posed an immunological mystery: They can harbor viruses that cause severe diseases in other animals, including ...

When it comes to viruses, ones from bats are weirdly deadly — at least to humans. The mammals can carry many viruses with the potential to cause serious diseases in people, including rabies, Ebola, ...

Through their association with vampires, general spookiness, and fighting crime in comic books, bats are often misunderstood and even feared—at least by those who cross Nosferatu and Batman. But ...

Bats are the source of more dangerous viruses than any other mammal. Evolutionary tricks and fierce immune systems make them the perfect hosts. We keep hearing about bat-borne viruses, outstanding in ...