Atomic force microscopy, laser ablation, and etching with a witches brew of toxic chemicals: sounds like [Zachary Tong] has been playing in the lab again, and this time he found a way to fabricate ...

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 ...

The fruit fly’s eye consists of a highly patterned hexagonal lattice of 800 clusters of photoreceptor cells. Some of the secrets as to how this pattern formed remained a mystery until 2022. That’s ...