Quanta Magazine

Fly-Vac: Groundhog Day for Fruit Flies (2015x13)

Air date: Jul 21, 2015

Benjamin de Bivort’s lab at Harvard University developed a device called the fly-vac to study individual behavior. Upon entering a chamber, the fly must choose to walk toward the light or dark end. A vacuum then sucks it back to the starting point, and it makes the choice again.