How flies set their cruising altitude

Friday, August 20, 2010 - 05:56 in Biology & Nature

Insects in flight must somehow calculate and control their height above the ground, and researchers reporting online on August 19 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have new insight into how fruit flies do it. The answer is simpler than expected...

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