Scientists have discovered that fruit fly larvae can actually "taste" food texture, thanks to specialized neurons in their ...

The researchers observed that the maggots consistently preferred the rotten fruit over the fresh one. This behavior suggested ...

It turns out, a maggot's preference for rotting fruit has as much to do with texture as taste. Researchers are looking into ...

Researchers have discovered neurons in the fly larva mouth that allow the taste of food texture. The study found that the fly peripheral taste organ has neurons with texture-tasting mechanoreceptors ...

Has three (male) or four (female) white stripes on the abdomen. Adult apple maggots begin to emerge from the soil around July 1, continuing through most of the summer. Apple maggot flies lay eggs in ...

Non-invasive techniques such as functional MRI (fMRI) can be used to record signals related to brain activity in humans from many locations in the brain simultaneously. However, many conventional ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monographs (www.monographs.iarc.fr) identify environmental and occupational causes of human cancer. Sometimes called the WHO “Encyclopedia of ...

For the study, 20 participants without any hearing problems were recruited. Long believed to be inactive or vestigial, scientists believe that the muscles behind the human ear are actually ...

The major issue for residents was the smell. Locals also cited an increase in maggots and flies due to the organic material from the new bins, as well as the contents of red bins now being left to ...

The study is the first comprehensive examination of the impacts of ocean pollution on human health. It was published in the online edition of the Annals of Global Health and released at the Monaco ...

Jeff Landry and President Donald Trump using vulgar language The Latest President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will withdraw from the U.N.’s top human rights body and will ...