Flies use directional memory to track a scent
July 22, 2026
July 22, 2026
NEW YORK, July 22 -- Rockefeller University posted the following news:
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Flies use directional memory to track a scent
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When a fruit fly catches a whiff of a ripe peach, it quickly heads toward it. Time after time, it finds the fruit-even from many feet away and even if the scent arrives only as a few drifting, disconnected puffs.
How do they home in with such unerring accuracy? Scientists have long assumed that all insects t . . .
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Flies use directional memory to track a scent
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When a fruit fly catches a whiff of a ripe peach, it quickly heads toward it. Time after time, it finds the fruit-even from many feet away and even if the scent arrives only as a few drifting, disconnected puffs.
How do they home in with such unerring accuracy? Scientists have long assumed that all insects t . . .