This finding may explain why we lumbering humans seldom squash flies. Gwyndaf Hughes/BBC News The fly brain slicer: it was cut into 7,000 incredbly thin pieces using this microscopic knife The ...

That’s a staggering length to pack into the tiny head of a fruit fly,” he described. In a human brain, the wiring length is even more staggering, reaching millions of miles. Fruit flies ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Over the last 10 years, more than 600 scientists at 150 labs have collaborated toward one goal: to map the entire brain of a fruit fly all in the hope of better ...

However, he noted "the difference is pretty dramatic" between human and fruit fly brains. "The human brain is a million times bigger than the fly brain in terms of neurons," he said, so ...

They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates - all this with a brain that’s tinier than a pinhead. Now for the first time scientists researching the brain of a fly have ...

This finding may explain why we lumbering humans seldom squash flies. The wiring diagram was made by slicing up a fly brain using what is essentially a microscopic cheese grater, photographing ...

So you could say they jump away without even having to think – literally faster than the speed of thought. This finding may explain why we lumbering humans seldom squash flies. The wiring diagram was ...

The writer is a contributing columnist, based in Chicago Watching the first birds fly south outside my window ... River — is increasingly disrupted by humans. Ed Gittens, 74, has lived almost ...

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