Truman and his team have now learned how much metamorphosis reshuffles parts of the brain. In a recent study published in the journal eLife, they traced dozens of neurons in the brains of fruit flies ...

Early demo hints at a future sci-fi writers warned us about San Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the ...

Scientists have built a working simulation of an entire adult fruit fly brain and connected it to a physics-based virtual ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American There’s something odd about the many species ...

In a simulation of Mars, a space rover is testing a control system with an unusual inspiration: insect brains. The software was created by Opteran, a startup based in the UK. But the idea originated ...

After nearly 350 years, a depiction of a bee’s brain is getting some buzz. A manuscript created in the mid-1670s contains the oldest known depiction of an insect’s brain, historian of science Andrea ...