Male fruit flies of the Drosophila genus fight over mates and food when they encounter each other – with the exception of Drosophila santomea males, which court each other with mating songs instead.

Like the males of many animal species, male Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies, a commonly studied lab animal, are ...

PASADENA, CA – Long before he became one of the world’s most influential astronomers, Shrinivas Kulkarni grew up in a tightly knit, unusually accomplished Indian family, moving from town to town ...

New UC Riverside study finds US municipalities will need massive investments in treatment plants, reservoirs, and pipelines to meet peak water demand from AI and cloud ...

A gunman accused of shooting dead a world-famous Caltech genius last week was let out of jail just two months ago despite a felony gun charge, the California Post has learned. Freddy Snyder was ...

Freddy Snyder, 29, was charged with murder, carjacking and burglary. The victim, Carl Johann Grillmair, was found shot on the front porch of a home. Snyder was initially arrested for a carjacking in ...

Carl Grillmair was found dead at his Los Angeles home on Monday, Feb. 16 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She has also published stories in ...

A Caltech genius has been gunned down on his porch in Southern California. Carl Grillmair was found dead outside his home in the unincorporated community of Llano, 75 miles north of LA, on Monday. The ...

Matthew Rodriguez is a digital producer for CBS Los Angeles. He's previously reported for local outlets like the Argonaut and Pasadena Weekly. Matt typically covers breaking news and crime. A ...

An accomplished Caltech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the study of distant planets was fatally shot in a rural area of the Antelope ...