A confidential Navy program is studying whether intense fighter jet operations can cause devastating brain injuries in flight ...

All animals including humans are subject to daily rhythms in their activity and sleep, hunger, metabolism, and reproduction.

In early October, scientists revealed something spectacular—a complete map of a fruit fly’s brain. Roughly the size of a ...

Researchers have created the first complete map of the circadian clock in the Drosophila brain, revealing it consists of at ...

The brain is an incredibly complex organ, but its billions of neurons have recently been mapped, opening up some fascinating ...

Researchers created a complete map of the fruit fly’s brain circadian clock, identifying 240 neurons involved in time-keeping ...

Multi-dendritic cibarium neurons in the fly pharynx sense mechanical force during swallowing by NOMPC, piezo, and Tmc, besides, these neurons interact with motor neurons to control food swallow.

From oceans found on distant planets to a detailed map of a fly’s brain, these findings deepened our understanding of the ...

Using silencer-seq, the Stark lab identified 800+ silencers and the transcription factor Saft in fruit flies, enhancing our ...

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 ...