Gnats, drain flies, and fruit flies are all attracted to damp places and organic matter, so it’s easy to confuse the three insects. Gnats look like small mosquitoes and are usually dark gray or black.

The brain diagram, called a connectome, could revolutionize researchers' understanding of the human brain, which has many parallels with a fruit fly's ...

Researchers map the whole brain of Drosophila melanogaster, or the fruit fly, which comprises about 140,000 neurons and over ...

Fruit flies with gut tumors showed an increased preference for a bitter antitumor compound compared to healthy flies, ...

For decades, researchers had a theory about how an animal's brain keeps track of where it is relative to its surroundings without outside cues – like how we know where we are, even with our eyes close ...

The flour beetle is a pest that's increasingly appearing in our kitchens and pantries. Although less known than pantry moths, ...

More than a decade before humans launched themselves into outer space, a tiny species made the journey first.

The approach used to make the map—which heavily relied on artificial intelligence—could chart more complex brains, such as ...

Neuroscientists have uncovered how a small network of neurons in fruit flies accurately maintains an internal compass, ...

Scientists have made an enormous step toward understanding the human brain by building a neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse roadmap -- scientifically speaking, a 'connectome' -- through the brain ...

An international team of researchers and gamers, led by Princeton’s Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung, mapped every neuron and ...

They created a neuron-by-neuron and synapse-by-synapse map of the brain of an adult fruit fly ( Drosophila melanogaster ). It ...