Science News 12 April 2010
Fruit flies make abrupt turns
Postdoctoral research associate in engineering Attila Bergou is part of a research team that discovered that fruit flies’ aerial gymnastics are driven by wing joints that act like wind-up toys, letting the bugs whirl around almost automatically.
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http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/58108/title/Fruit_flies_turn_on_autopilot
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