Brown University engineers and biologists have joined forces to record the fine details of wing and body movement in bat flight -- together with the patterns of air movement that generate lift.

Bats rely on impressively complex flight maneuvers to catch prey in mid-air, and understanding how they manage those feats could lead to improvements in man-made aircraft. In a new study published ...

The discovery of bat sonar solved the mystery of their night-time aerobatics, and the wing hairs fell into obscurity. But John Zook at Ohio University had not forgotten about them. He has shown ...

In a paper published April 30 in the journal Cell Reports, they show how sensory receptors in bat wings send information about airflow to neurons in the brain, enabling the bat to make split ...