About 350 million years ago, our planet witnessed the evolution of the first flying creatures. They are still around, and some of them continue to annoy us with their buzzing. While scientists have ...

Navigating an environment is a key skill for many organisms. For years, scientists have wondered how the brain pieces together environmental inputs, compares them to an animal’s desired destination, ...

Summer is the season for flies, which belong to an insect group that scientists call Diptera. Many fly species are more ...