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Fake Fruit Flies

Diffusion Science radio by Ian Woolf

May 3, 2026Science & Medicine

Listen to news of self-watering fungi, and a fruit fly brain copied into a computer, hooked up to a pretend body, living in a simulated world. Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution S...

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