Axiom 4 mission is using fruit flies to study how we might protect human DNA from harmful space radiation during long missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

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Ananya Aggarwal, rising eighth grader at Columbia Independent Schools, made it through the preliminary round of the Scripps ...

If only a few sperm are transferred to females as in fruit flies, selection -- and thus also the evolution of longer sperm -- is expected to be weakened or even halted. Sexual selection has a ...