Wildlife

So a bunch of scientists decided to get a bunch of fruit flies drunk (I'd love to have been in the room when that plan was hatched) and what do you think happens?

From the third day onwards, the flies were forming "courtship chains" of amorous males.

Science does not get much funnier then this. Though the interesting thing to come out of the study, especially considering the stuff the NYT was talking about with long term effects of binge drinking, was that the flies had differing and more extreme reactions in inhibition suppression on each successive day of alcohol exposure.

Also, as far as amazing news on New Scientist goes, astronomers have discovered a planet forming in the dust cloud surrounding a new star for the first time. This is huge.