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Flies That Do Calculus With Their Wings 107

DudeTheMath (522264) writes "Cornell University scientists studied how fruit flies respond to flight disturbances (instead of wind gusts, they used carefully controlled magnetic pulses) and found that the flies recover in as little as three wing beats (at 250 per second) by doing some kind of calculus in a little 'integrated circuit' of neurons that control the wings directly. The pitch and yaw results are already published, and the roll study is forthcoming."
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Flies That Do Calculus With Their Wings

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Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.

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