The Surprising Benefits of Space Flies

This episode is brought to you by the Music for Scientists album! Stream the album on major music services here: https://biglink.to/music-for-scientists. Check out the “For Your Love" music video here: https://youtu.be/YGjjvd34Cvc. In space we can finally get away from pesky flies landing in our drinks! But before we can live off-Earth full time, sending flies into orbit is helping us study how space affects our human hearts and immune systems. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Charles Copley, Jb Taishoff, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, LehelKovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/laban.451 https://www.nasa.gov/ames/fruit-fly-lab https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/07/fruit-fly-fascination-nobel-prizes-genetics https://www.space.com/20648-animals-in-space-history-infographic.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-019-0091-2 https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000821.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26846/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0015361 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0086485 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/fruit_fly https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/heat-shock-response https://www.nasa.gov/ames/research/space-biosciences/drosophila-containers-and-platforms https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1040 https://www.nasa.gov/ames/research/space-biosciences/fruit-fly-lab https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1662 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/sbpm-ffr112320.php https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(20)31434-0 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1774 https://www.nasa.gov/ames/research/space-biosciences/fruit-fly-lab-03-spacex-14 Images: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/suni_iss_tour.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/videos/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/ames/research/space-biosciences/fruit-fly-lab-03-spacex-14