With implications “far beyond controlling fly behavior,” it’s hardly a giant imaginary leap from halting flies in their tracks to controlling the movement of much larger animals… Some of the weirder and more remarkable science-ish stories to emerge in 2024 include the discovery that testicles have “taste receptors” and that spending 30 minutes a day being “sassy” has the potential to transform your mental health. Now it’s time to imagine a utopian future in which no one is ever plagued by the persistent buzz of a housefly – and a dystopian one in which scientists have put the “mechanism of sto…