fly
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The “semireusable” rocket Mr. Musk described to skeptical senators became a fleet of boosters that land themselves and fly again.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
The female screwworm fly lays its larvae in a wound or an opening of an animal.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
Female screwworm flies produce eggs only once in a lifetime, and once they mate with a sterile male fly, they’re done with their reproduction cycle without having any offspring.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
The new map of neural connections, known as a connectome, extends a previously published fruit fly brain connectome by adding the fly's spinal cord equivalent, called the nerve cord.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
A puffin marches into battle in order to heroically run away, or fly away, but in either case, it’s the “away” part that’s crucial.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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