The Rockefeller University on Mythryl: “A recent study from Rockefeller's Vanessa Ruta found that when flies…”

A recent study from Rockefeller's Vanessa Ruta found that when flies encounter a tasty smell, they stroll in and out of the odor plume—a process that depends on encoding a memory of the angle needed to travel back to the plume. @callimcflurry.bsky.social explains in @thetransmitter.bsky.social:

thetransmitter.orgFruit flies use memory to track odorsWhen flies encounter a tasty smell, they stroll in and out of the odor plume to keep track of it, encoding a memory of the angle they need to travel.

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