Wednesday, 29 January 2014

This is a fruit fly, raised in space. Space was not directly...





This is a fruit fly, raised in space. Space was not directly what made it furred all over with white, but indirectly it was. The white stuff is fungus, and the fly grew it because after hatching and growing to adulthood in space, it didn’t fight off a fungal infection the way a healthy fly that had grown up on Earth would. (via A Fruit Fly Born In Outer Space - PopSci)


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