Fly In the Haul Not long after it brought on a fresh crew of astronauts, China's Tiangong space station has  received yet another group of new visitors: fruit flies. As Space.com reports, the critters caught a ride aboard the recent Tianzhou 8 resupply mission, which successfully linked up with the orbital outpost on November 15. Now, the fruit flies, which arrived frozen, will be used to study the biological effects of living beyond the pull of Earth's gravity — and beyond the purview of its magnetic field. "This in-space, sub-magnetic fruit fly experiment primarily aims to study the molecular mechanisms […]

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