Researchers have found a new role for the transcription factor (proteins that regulate the transcription, or copying, of genes). In the fruit fly, this transcription factor, named Traffic Jam, ...

As thousands of bats launch nightly hunting, the cacophony of a dense crowd should stymie echolocation, a so-called “cocktail party nightmare.” ...

The Malayan flying fox has many names, including the greater flying fox, kalong, and large fruit bat. Its most accurate name ...

Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are especially attracted to the smell of fermenting fruit, often swarming our kitchens ...

For decades, Corey Tarwater and her research team have used mist nets by day to capture various species of tropical birds in ...

Researchers have revealed that the presence of Nora virus in fruit flies can increase their sensitivity to bacterial ...

Morgan's experiments are not only fundamental to our knowledge of heredity; they have also made an animal respectable for science, which previously only a few specialists had worked with: the fruit, ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Sheng Huang and ...

A Qantas flight scheduled to fly out of Rockhampton last month had to be cancelled after it struck a bat on its arrival to the city. The council said in a statement it did not record the number of ...

Engineers in Somerset are building a helicopter that is set to fly itself - without the need for humans to operate it remotely - in a research project for the Royal Navy. There have been ...

It can be ready to fly in under 30 seconds, is hand deployable, and features 4G/LTE connectivity for remote control and monitoring via a mobile device. Ascent has cooked in AI-enabled obstacle ...

The great fruit-eating bat (Artibeus lituratus) can harbor the new MERS-like virus. (Juan Cruzado Cortés/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0) Scientists in Brazil and China discovered the close relative of ...