A new genetic barcoding approach in fruit flies enables labelling of specific cell populations and allows researchers to scale up behavioural experiments by pooling groups of flies.
A combination of machine-learning techniques and more traditional modeling approaches can use the unique patterns of brain activity that evolve over time to predict traits such as age and cognitive ability.
The parasite phytoplasma helps male and female leafhoppers find each other so they can breed and increase the population of insects that spread the parasite to new hosts.