The ellipsoid body (EB) is a major structure in the central complex of the Drosophila melanogaster brain. It exhibits a high level of connectivity and functional heterogeneity while tuning multiple ...

Humans are really good at navigation. It’s how we managed — over eons — to migrate across the world’s great landmasses and oceans. It has enabled us to to find our way around areas as vast as space, ...

Insects have a spatial orientation memory that helps them remember the location of their destination if they are briefly deflected from their route. Researchers have examined how this working memory ...

Fruit flies have an internal compass that works when the lights go out, scientists have discovered. Their findings suggest that dissecting how fruit flies navigate through the world could help ...

Nestled deep inside a fruit fly's brain, specialized nerve cells knit themselves into a tiny compass. New results from neuroscientists at the Janelia Research Campus illuminate the architecture of ...

Many TV-watching readers will be familiar with a certain Homer and his relationship with alcohol. Now, Urizar et al. show that expression of a gene with the same name in a subset of neurons in the ...