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Don't miss: A chance for gamers to plot their own robot revolution

13 March 2019

Check out new books charting the state of our planet, see a movie thriller with a quantum physics twist, and launch your own robot uprising against humankind

The greater mouse-eared bat has a habit of bumping into windows

Bats crash into windows because of a glitch with their 'sonar'

7 September 2017

Until bats get very close, their echolocation makes them “see” smooth surfaces like windows as gaps rather than as a solid material – with impactful results

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Don't miss: A chance for gamers to plot their own robot revolution

Bats crash into windows because of a glitch with their 'sonar'

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