Rockefeller University researchers have discovered a new organelle inside the gut cells of the fruit fly — a surprise discovery, staring us in the face, in one of the most well-studied animals in all of science.

The new organelle stockpiles phosphate, an electrolyte essential to life. When faced with a shortage, it releases its reservoir in the form of phospholipids, which are a key component of the membrane structure of cells.

“This is one of the first studies to actually find phosphate storage in an animal cell,” Rebekka Wild told Nature’s Gemma Conroy. A structural biologist at French state research organization the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Wild was not involved with the study.

New communications technologies don’t come with user’s manuals. They are primitive, while old tech is refined. So critics attack. The critic’s job is easier than the practitioner’s: they score with the fearful by comparing the infancy of the new medium with the perfected medium it threatens. But of course, the practitioner wins. In the end, we always assimilate to the new technology.

Here are 11 examples of fear and suspicion of new technology, spanning the history of communications.

University of South Florida professor Joseph Dituri has spent more than 74 days at an underwater Florida Keys lodge. He’s already broken the record for living underwater and plans to stay at Jules’ Undersea Lodge until he hits 100 days.

In case you were wondering how that gem of a concept from last year’s I/O was doing, here’s a clue.

By looking for tiny bumps in sea level caused by the gravity of subsurface mountains, researchers have roughly doubled the number of known seamounts.

Scientists found a previously unrecognized organelle in fruit flies, a thoroughly studied organism.

A major barrier to creating photonic time crystals in the lab has been overcome by a team of researc.