Diffusion Science radio: Fake Fruit Flies

Fake Fruit Flies


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Listen to news of self-watering fungi, and a fruit fly brain copied into a computer, hooked up to a pretend body, in a simulated world.
Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf

A previously unrecognized class of fungal ice-nucleating proteins with bacterial ancestry.
How hidden soil fungi ‘steal’ bacterial DNA to control the rain
Atmospheric Fungal Spore Injection: A Promising Breakthrough for Challenging the Impacts of Climate Change Through Cloud Seeding and Weather Modification,

FlyWire AI
FlyWire: online community for whole-brain connectomics
The FlyWire connectome: neuronal wiring diagram of a complete fly brain
Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain.
Centralized brain networks underlie body part coordination during grooming
NeuroMechFly v2: simulating embodied sensorimotor control in adult Drosophila
Whole-body physics simulation of fruit fly locomotion
A Drosophila computational brain model reveals sensorimotor processing
The First Multi-Behavior Brain Upload
Advanced physics simulation
We've Uploaded a Fruit Fly
How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly
Researchers Upload Fly’s Brain to Matrix, Let It Control Virtual Body




May 6, 2026
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