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Behaviour: Flies on film

A unique collaboration is bringing automated screening to the study of fly behaviour and could change the way that machines see humans. Lizzie Buchen reports.

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Lizzie Buchen is an intern with Nature based in Washington DC.

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Behaviour: Flies on film. Nature 462, 562–564 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/462562a

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