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The brain on sonar - how blind people find their way around with echoes” (National Geographic Magazine), May 25, 2011 • “Hirnforschung: Wie sich Blinde per Echoortung orientieren” (Der Spiegel), May 26, 2011 • “Klickblitze im Dunkeln“ (Spektrum der Wissenschaft), December 5, 2011 • “Human brain's 'bat sight' found” (BBC), May 26, 2011 • “Human echolocation: Using tongue-clicks to navigate the world” (BBC World News), 12 September 2012  •  “Humans Can Learn to Echolocate” (Life Science), August 27, 2013 • Bat-Inspired Tech Could Help Blind People See with Sound (PBS, Nova), October 23, 2013 • “Ultrasonic helmet lets anyone see like a bat” (Popular Science), February 9, 2015 • “Human bat uses echoes and sounds to see the world” (New Scientist), May 9, 2015 • “Echolocation” (AsK – Kid’s Science Magazine), September, 2016 • “Learning Echolocation” (Scientific American “Mind Matters” Guest Blog), April, 2017 • “How Blind People use Echolocation” (Science Magazine), 1 September 2017 • “What it takes to be an expert echolocator” (Wired), 31 August 2017  • “This is how some people are able to echolocate like bats” (New Scientist), 31 August 2017  • “Mouth clicks used in human echolocation captured in unprecedented detail” (Science Daily), 31 August 2017  • “'Seeing with sound': study explores how the blind use echolocation (CTV News), 31 August 2017 •  “Human echolocators ‘see’ with sound. Here’s what that actually looks like.” (PBS News), 8 September 2017 • made it to top on Reddit 31.5k votes; 1000 comments • “Mouth Clicks Used in Human Echolocation Captured in Unprecedented Detail” (EurekAlert), 31 August 2017 • ‘We Finally Know How Humans Are Able to Echolocate, Just Like Bats And Whales: And it's not that hard to learn’ (Science Alert) 31 August 2017 •  ‘The stunning acoustic power of human echolocators’ (Washington Post), 1 September 2017 • ‘Teaching Humans to Echolocate’ (The Scientist) 1st October 2017 • ‘How does human echolocation work?’ (Smithsonian Magazine) 2 October 2017 •  “Echolocation: helping the blind see with sound” (The Mathworks Blog), 18 October, 2017 • “Blind people able to use array of bat-like clicks as 'sonar' to sense their surroundings” (The Independent), 28 February 2018 • “Just Like Bats, Humans Are Able to Echolocate” (Seeker), 28 February 2018 • “How humans echolocate 'like bats” (BBC News), 28 February 2018 • “Echolocation could help blind people learn to navigate like bats” (The Guardian), 28 February 2018 • “Human Echolocation” (Bat Conservation Trust: Bat News, Issue 115), Spring 2018 • “The power of our hidden senses” (BBC Future), 18 March 2019 • “Echolocation in blind people reveals the brain’s adaptive powers” (Science Magazine), 1 October 2019 • featured on frontpage Reddit 42.6k votes; 908 comments • How does the rubber pencil illusion work? (LifeScience) 7 Feb 2021 • People who are blind navigate better after echolocation training (New Scientist), 2 June 2021 • People Can Learn Echolocation in Ten Weeks (Smithsonian Magazine), 4 June 2021 • Echolocation: People trained to hear like bats in a study that could help those with vision loss (BBC Science Focus), 2 June 2021 • Can people use echolocation like bats to help 'see' things? (BBC Newsround), 6 June 2021 • Scientists successfully train humans to echolocate like BATS in just ten weeks in breakthrough that could one day allow blind people to navigate by clicking their tongues (Daily Mail), 2 June 2021 • Echolocation can help those with vision loss – study (Evening Standard), 2 June 2021 • Click of the tongue helps blind people to navigate like bats (The Times), 3 June 2021 • NHS urged to train people to be 'blind as a bat' using sonar (The Telegraph), 2 June 2021 • New study finds human echolocators can better locate targets from sideways rather than straight ahead (Science Magazine), 15 June 2022 •  Humans can learn mind-blowing ‘sixth sense’: study (New York Post), 20 June, 2022 • Humans can learn mindblowing ‘SIXTH sense’ – and it only ‘takes 10 weeks to master’ (The US Sun), 20 June, 2022.