You can rock fruit flies to sleep with gentle vibrations

A bunch of scientists figured out that you can rock fruit flies to sleep, just like sweet little babies.

This adorable finding is reported in a recent edition of Cell Reports. It's long been known that rocking helps many animals sleep, because — as the framework in this paper hypothesizes, anyway — when you're rocked your system gradually screens out stimulus, which reduces our arousal, and leads to sleepiness. — Read the rest