Engineers develop tiny light detectors that work like gecko ears

Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - 07:50 in Physics & Chemistry

Geckos and many other animals have heads that are too small to triangulate the location of noises the way we do, with widely spaced ears. Instead, they have a tiny tunnel through their heads that measures the way incoming sound waves bounce around to figure out which direction they came from. Facing their own problem […]

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