If you take more than 10 percent of the fruit in a stacked produce display — watch out. The iconic sloped produce displays in grocery stores can cause chaos when they collapse.

For the first time, scientists tinkering with fruit fly genes have succeeded in inducing virgin birth in an animal that normally reproduces sexually. The findings could have implications for food ...

Although a fruit display is far less random than the arrangement of the earth or snow on a mountain, it’s a good place to start in determining the effect of removing objects from a structure.

Citation: Endangered fruit-eating animals play an outsized role in a tropical forest—losing them could have dire consequences (2022, October 12) ...