The beautiful, fascinating and often perplexing world around us grows from intricate and convoluted interactions of millions ...

The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in households around the world, where it often deposits eggs on rotting flesh ...

When a fruit fly is navigating straight forward at high speed, why does it know that it's not straying off course? Because as ...

Cherry farmers in Michigan continue to combat the spotted wing drosophila, a fruit fly native to Asia that has terrorized ...

African researchers are using Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies to advance studies of genetics, biomedicine, developmental biology, toxicology and more.

Fruit fly development offers insights into condensed matter physics During the last century, biologists have extensively studied Drosophila melanogaster, the common household fruit fly.

In a groundbreaking achievement, Princeton University scientists have fully mapped the brain of an adult fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, unlocking new insights into how brains work. The feat ...

You have likely not spent much time thinking about the uterus of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.

In a new study published today in Nature Neuroscience (May 1st, 2025), scientists reveal how the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, achieves this remarkable feat.

Stores of glucose in the brain could play a much more significant role in the pathological degeneration of neurons than ...

Identifying and charting the 130,000 neurons and 50 million connections inside the poppy seed–sized brain of the fly, Drosophila melanogaster, took 10 years and involved hundreds of researchers ...

An international team of researchers and gamers, led by Princeton’s Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung, mapped every neuron and every synaptic connection in an adult fruit fly's brain, building a ...