New Research Reveals Advanced Olfactory Navigation in Fruit Flies

Biology

1 August 2026 at 11:30 pm

New Research Reveals Advanced Olfactory Navigation in Fruit Flies

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New research led by neuroscientist Vanessa Ruta at Rockefeller University reveals that fruit flies use a more advanced method than previously thought to navigate by smell, challenging the long-held "surge and cast" model. Scientists previously struggled to understand how fruit flies, with their tiny brains, track chaotic odor plumes in turbulent air.

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