In an evolutionary battle of the sexes, scientists have found that male flies sharpen their eyesight to avoid being tricked ...

With bloated bellies and hairy legs, female flies try to look bigger to get food from courting mates. But male flies, in turn ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

Glasses that mimic fly eyes could help people who are losing their vision due to macular degeneration. O post Glasses that mimic fly eyes help people with vision loss apareceu primeiro em TechBreak.

By copying the structure of a fly's eyes, the specs are claimed to "fill in" the missing section of the wearer's view of the world. Macular degeneration is one of the leading causes of blindness ...

But why do flies hang around us? The reason depends on the species of insect, experts say. "For a certain group of them, they're interested in us because we are mammals with warm blood that they can ...

In the animal kingdom, seduction is often the business of males, who display various attributes to attract females. However, in dancer flies, the opposite is true. Females inflate their abdomens with ...

The fly eye is patterned by a morphogenetic wave driven by the Hedgehog signaling protein. In the 22 September Science Neumann and Nuesslein-Volhard report that neuronal differentiation in zebrafish ...

Atomic force microscopy, laser ablation, and etching with a witches brew of toxic chemicals: sounds like [Zachary Tong] has been playing in the lab again, and this time he found a way to fabricate ...