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 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 ...

The brain of a fruit fly is dominated by neurons that take in signals from the eyes on either side of its head and process them to perceive the fly’s surroundings.Credit...Tyler Sloan for ...

And if it wasn't a forced landing in the ocean, it was running smack-dab into the side of a mountain ... attempting to become the first aviators to fly successfully around the world -- an ...

With a brain the size of a sesame seed, the lowly fruit fly is often considered a kitchen pest ... Overlapping neural wires from two circuits could be interpreted as one: Imagine a satellite view of a ...

There are a lot of numbers in fly fishing, and some of the numbering may not make sense to the uninitiated—or to the initiated, for that matter. A higher number means a smaller hook, yet the ...

Now for the first time scientists researching the brain of a fly have identified the position, shape and connections of every single one of its 130,000 cells and 50 million connections.

As beautiful as it is complex, the fly's brain has more than 130,000 wires ... when things go wrong in our brains.” That is a view backed by Dr Lucia Prieto Godino, a group leader in brain ...

Hundreds of scientists and citizen scientists from around the world have mapped out more than 50 million connections in the tiny fruit fly brain, a step toward one day producing an intricate map ...