The event took place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and over 100 children ages 8-14 got the opportunity to learn about aviation and ...

The three remaining horses who were quarantined have tested negative for disease. They will remain quarantined and be re-tested in two months. EIA is caused by insects, usually flies. The ...

Along with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, it’s one of two companies with rockets cleared to fly national security space missions for DOD and the intelligence community. The company is in the process of ...

More than a decade before humans launched themselves into outer space, a tiny species made the journey first. NASA first sent fruit flies on a mission in 1947 to see whether the intrepid insects would ...

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 ...

This is easier said than done because even small animals, such as flies, have hundreds of thousands of neurons and millions of synapses. As a result, we only have a complete connectome for very ...

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 ...

“With the fly wiring diagram, we have the potential for an unprecedented, detailed and deep understanding.” Previous researchers have mapped the brain of a C. elegans worm, with its 302 neurons, and ...

Previous researchers have mapped the brain of a C. elegans worm, with its 302 neurons, and the brain of a larval fruit fly, which had 3,000 neurons, but the adult fruit fly is several orders of ...

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 ...

One of the more common insects affecting livestock is the horse fly. Much larger than a typical house fly or stable fly, horseflies can grow to be just over an inch and have a terrible bite.