Flies which feast on blood—such as tsetse and horse flies—inflict painful bites and spread debilitating diseases among people and animals alike. So a lot of work has gone into designing the most efficient traps to control ...
Other
Jul 5, 2023
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How can you tell if a fruit fly is hungry? Ask a computer.
Biotechnology
Jun 30, 2023
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A small international team of life scientists has discovered why biting flies are attracted to things that are blue. In their study, reported in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group used an artificial neural network ...
The saffron robber fly (Laphria saffrana) is an extremely fast bee-colored hunter that has to determine, while perched, which insects it wants to chase and eat. This is complicated by the fact that its eyes have poor resolution, ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 28, 2023
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A research group at the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University in Japan has used artificial intelligence to determine that piezo, a channel that receives mechanical stimuli, plays a role in controlling the mating posture ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 27, 2023
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The new discovery of ancient stone artifacts at an underwater spring off the Western Australia Pilbara coast has confirmed the location is a submerged archaeological site where more ancient Aboriginal artifacts are likely ...
Archaeology
Jun 26, 2023
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A team at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has successfully engineered an albino strain of the hummingbird bobtail squid, Euprymna berryi. This advance, reported in Current Biology, has created a nearly transparent ...
Biotechnology
Jun 20, 2023
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Tsetse are biting flies that transmit the parasites causing sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana in animals. Female tsetse flies, which give birth to enormous, adult-sized live young, can experience miscarriages and these ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 15, 2023
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Researchers led by Christi Gendron at the University of Michigan have found the link between death perception and accelerated aging in flies. Their new study, published June 13 in the open access journal PLOS Biology shows ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2023
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An animal's brain consists of two different types of cell: neurons, which process and transmit information, and glial cells, which support the neurons in a variety of ways. In 1871, the French anatomist Louis-Antoine Ranvier ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 8, 2023
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