China’s Tiangong space station has received new, unusual guests. While fruit flies are annoying in the kitchen, they can help solve some serious science mysteries while in space. The small insect, ...
While it's well-known that gnats are drawn to rotting fruit, dirty drains, and stinky trashcans, there are plenty of other items that could be attracting them.
There’s a name for that feeling you get after spending too long scrolling aimlessly, and Oxford University Press (OUP) has chosen it as its word for the year for 2024. “Brain rot” took the ...
29, beginning their six-month-long stay in orbit. They have since been joined by 15 adult fruit flies and 40 pupae, which arrived aboard the Tianzhou 8 resupply mission on Nov. 15. Researchers aim ...