{
  "id": 6231914,
  "title": "Fruit flies use memory to track odors",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/fruit-flies-use-memory-to-track-odors",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-08T04:00:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Transmitter",
    "slug": "the-transmitter",
    "url": "https://www.thetransmitter.org/olfaction/fruit-flies-use-memory-to-track-odors/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When flies encounter a tasty smell, they stroll in and out of the odor plume—a process that depends on encoding a memory of the angle needed to travel back to the plume, according to a new study.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}