They might be small, but according to research by Bruno van Swinderen, a professor at the University of Queensland, fruit flies have selective attention. This means they choose which visual stimuli to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's happened to all of us—the bunch of bananas meant to be used in smoothies or enjoyed as a healthy snack is now sitting on the ...

Fruit flies are some of the worst household pests that exist, made worse by the fact that they are seemingly impossible to get rid of. The flies are attracted to fruit, other foods, and garbage, and ...

While probing the escape reflex in the fruit fly Drosophila, researchers at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU) and the ...

Seeing a swarm of pesky fruit flies in the kitchen is frustrating. We talk with a fruit fly researcher about how fruit flies make their way into... LISTEN: Fruit flies don't appear out of nowhere.

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture has placed the cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove under quarantine to try to stop the spread of the oriental fruit fly. The state has also started ...