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Professor Cynthia Moss (Psych/ISR) was recently interviewed for a News Channel 8 story on bat wing hair research she conducted with ISR Assistant Research Scientist Susanne Sterbing-D'Angelo. Their research team discovered empirical evidence for what bat experts have long suspected: the tiny domed hairs function as arrays of sensors that transmit airspeed information to bats? brains, helping them control their flight and avoid stalling.

This news segment is just one of many stories about the research findings that have appeared in recent weeks. Other examples include:

Nature News
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Discovery News
Science
Physorg.com
ABC Science (Australia)
ARS Technica (Condé Nast)
TruthDive.com
Popular Mechanics

| View the News Channel 8 story here |

Related Articles:
Tiny hairs on bats? wings act as speedometers
Sterbing-D'Angelo interviewed by Forbes magazine
Bats' touch sensor cells enable precision flight
Wen, Horiuchi are runners up for BioCAS 2018 Best Paper Award
Alumna Kirsten Bohn's bat song research is Science cover story
Oct. 9, 9 pm: Moss lab featured in National Geographic's "Brain Games"
Moss research uncovers bats' systematic 'active sensing' strategies
Chiu, Reddy, Xian, Krishnaprasad and Moss publish in Journal of Experimental Biology
Moss wins DURIP Award for bat fluttering flight control research
Moss's findings published in Science reveal bats' fundamental 'targeting' tradeoff

July 28, 2011


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