As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior – the building blocks of personality. My experiments involved measuring how my tiny subjects ...

Researchers trained an AI model to accurately predict male fruit flies' courtship behavior in response to any sight of a female. This breakthrough offers new insight into how the brain processes ...

Why do flies buzz around in circles when the air is still? And why does it matter? In a paper published online July 26, 2024 by the scientific journal Current Biology, University of Nevada, Reno ...

A male fruit fly in a laboratory chamber extends his wings and vibrates them to produce his species' version of a love song.

A scientific team supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) unveiled the first complete map of the neural connections of the common fruit fly brain. The map provides a wiring diagram, known ...

Fungi and insects have been co-evolving for millions of years, and there are a variety of different fungi and insect relationships, some of which are beneficial. But fungi are also the most common ...

When it comes to understanding the inner workings of fruit flies, researchers at Tulane University have found an unlikely ally in the form of artificial intelligence (AI). Their newly developed AI ...

Assistant Professor Floris van Breugel and postdoctoral researcher David Stupski have uncovered an automatic behavior in flies, sink and circle, which involves lowering altitude and repetitive, rapid ...

Shraddha Lall was affiliated with The Conversation U.S. as a AAAS Mass Media Science Fellow for summer 2025. As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit ...