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Topic: fruit flies

Fruit fly (Drosophila Melanogaster) on a leaf (Getty Images/janeff)

Scientists turn on "virgin birth" in fly

Nicole Karlis
Closeup of a bunch of dead fruit flies (stockstudioX via Getty Images)

How dead fruit flies harm living ones

Christi Gendron - The Conversation
(Rocky Luten / Food52)

The many ways to get rid of pesky flies

Camryn Rabideau - Food52
(Bobbi Lin / Food52)

How to finally get rid of gnats

Camryn Rabideau - Food52
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(Bobbi Lin / Food52)

How to get rid of gnats for good

Camryn Rabideau - Food52
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-384643p1.html'>SvetlanaFedoseyeva</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Here's who won this year's Nobel Prize

Carrie L. Partch - The Conversation
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Lindsay Abrams

SHAUNACY FERRO - Popular Science
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