Welcome to ...

The place where the world comes together in honesty and mirth.
Windmills Tilted, Scared Cows Butchered, Lies Skewered on the Lance of Reality ... or something to that effect.

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Antennae Help Flies ‘Cruise’ In Gusty Winds

A tracing of the flies' flight trajectories as they explore in a wind tunnel, as seen from above. Each observation by the cameras is scaled according to flight speed, as if the animal was dribbling paint as it was flying; the longer the residence time, the larger the dot. Each trajectory is shown in a different color. The stars indicate when the flies were subjected to a brief gust of wind. These experiments revealed how the wind-sensing antennae stabilize the fly's visual flight controller.Antennae Help Flies ‘Cruise’ In Gusty Winds


Caltech researchers uncover a mechanism for how fruit flies regulate […]
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)