The brain diagram, called a connectome, could revolutionize researchers’ understanding of the human brain, which has many parallels with a fruit fly’s Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent ...

In the brain of a singular fruit fly, nerve cells weave themselves together, enabling flight, mating, eating, sleeping and every other activity of her fly life. Now, in nine papers published ...

Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. By Carl Zimmer A fruit fly’s brain is smaller than a poppy seed, but it packs ...

As a result, we only have a complete connectome for very simple nervous systems containing orders of magnitude fewer neurons than the fly. ‘FlyWire’, built a consortium comprising researchers ...

FRUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term memories of their surroundings; and even warn one another about the ...

As beautiful as it is complex, the fly's brain has more than 130,000 wires with 50 million intricate connections They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates - all this ...

David joined Raw Story in 2023 after nearly a decade of writing about the legal industry for Bloomberg Law. He is also a co-founder and a commissioning editor at Hypatia Press, a publisher that ...

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Traveling to Europe from the US just got cheaper—if passengers are willing to forgo all frills and travel light. Budget Icelandic airline PLAY has announced $99 flights from the US to Amsterdam ...