A complete fruit fly brain now controls a virtual body, walking and grooming exactly like its biological counterpart. Eon Systems announced this breakthrough on March 7, 2026, marking the first time ...

San Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors.… We'd call this "huge ...

They used it to model how the brain of a fruit fly reduces the dimensionality of smells, and found that it agreed well with observations in previous studies of how flies associated smells with their ...

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Circadian clocks control physiological processes and behavior in virtually all living organisms. Now an international research team has created a detailed map of the internal clock in the brain of the ...

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) researchers are unraveling the secrets of the fruit fly brain to advance robotics. A team from the institution's Neuroengineering Laboratory have used ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists showed that it’s possible to reproduce an entire cerebral cortex inside one of the world’s fastest computers. The model represents the ...

Researchers discover that rare axo-axonic synapses form a decentralized network of "broker" neurons to drive split-second fly ...

As millions of Americans adjust their clocks for daylight saving time this week, many experience disruptions in their sleep and daily routines – a reminder of the importance of circadian rhythms that ...

A new study shows learning to fly in virtual reality with virtual wings can reshape the brain, making it treat wings more like body parts.