Jakob von Uexküll was a Baltic German biologist ahead of his time, intrigued by the idea that animals inhabit unique perceptual worlds quite unlike our own. In 1934, he described angling for flies by ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

For just a few hours, shimmering waves of calcium move through cells in the developing eyes of fruit flies. These spontaneous waves serve a purpose, enabling communication between cells and shaping ...