Feature: Space exploration pioneers: three generations of fruit flies born in China's space station
by Xinhua writer Zhang Dan
BEIJING, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Can fruit flies reproduce in space? How do they behave in the space environment, without the Earth gravity or a geomagnetic field? Since the first batch of fruit flies arrived aboard China's Tianzhou-8 cargo craft last November, scientists have been closely monitoring them to explore these intriguing questions.
The very first question for scientists