The neurons that help us know where we’re going have been discovered by researchers. Working with bats, which move in three dimensions, the team found that bats’ brains contain a sort of 3D compass, ...

Bats have a three-dimensional "compass" in their brains that allows them to navigate nighttime environments and pull off complex maneuvers in flight without becoming disoriented, researchers have ...

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Pilots are trained to guard against vertigo: a sudden loss of the sense of vertical direction that renders them unable to tell "up" from "down" and sometimes even leads to crashes. Coming up out of a ...

Neuroscientists from Israel have discovered that bats have a mental compass that works in 3D, and this allows the flying mammals to orient themselves efficiently as they navigate through the air. For ...

Recordings from the brains of bats as they flew in a lab have revealed that the animals have a "neural compass" which lets them keep track of exactly where, and even which way up they are. So called ...

Pilots are trained to guard against vertigo: a sudden loss of the sense of vertical direction that renders them unable to tell up from down and sometimes even leads to crashes. Coming up out of a ...