Scientists have found 50 million reasons to study the brain of a fruit fly. That's how many connections they discovered in the first complete map— known as a connectome—of an adult insect's brain.

Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. By Carl Zimmer A fruit fly’s brain is smaller than a poppy seed, but it packs ...

Move over mosquitos. There’s another blood-sucking biter Americans need to guard against because it can spread disease: the sand fly. Sand flies are tiny tan flies — about the quarter of the size of a ...