A team of bioengineers at Harvard University's Rowland Institute has found two new ways to control a tiny creature, ...

On a soft piece of fermenting orange, a male fruit fly takes a sip of methanol-rich juice. Moments later, his body pulses ...

Fruit flies are already famous in science. They’ve helped researchers make discoveries in genetics, aging, and brain function. Now, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have found that fruit fly larvae have ...

But a team of researchers at Harvard has recognized that there are some behaviors that are so instinctual that it's possible to induce animals to act as if they were robotic. Or mostly robotic, at ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, ...

Alcohol enhances the production of sex pheromones, which are chemical signals used by fruit flies to attract mates.

Warmer weather means fruit flies will be at their worst. Here's how to keep them out of your home before the summer begins.

There’s no single, simple way to assess whether bugs feel pain, but research is giving scientists a better understanding of ...

A new Drosophila collection of Parkinsonism models reveals early synaptic cholinergic projection neuron dysfunction, linking synaptic failure to later dopaminergic decline, highlighting a role for ...

Then again, apparently adding alcohol to their food increases the production of sex pheromones in male fruit flies, according ...

This important study shows that the Nora virus, a natural Drosophila pathogen that also persistently infects many laboratory fly stocks, infects intestinal stem cells (ISCs), leading to a shorter life ...

Science is discovery and discovery evolve. Few discoveries have elicited as much excitement in the scientific world in recent times ...