Flies have slow-motion 'matrix' vision, Trinity researchers find

Flies avoid being swatted in just the same way Keanu Reeves dodges flying bullets in the movie The Matrix – by watching time pass slowly.

Flies have slow-motion 'matrix' vision, Trinity researchers find

Flies avoid being swatted in just the same way Keanu Reeves dodges flying bullets in the movie The Matrix – by watching time pass slowly, researcher

To the insect, that rolled up newspaper moving at lightning speed might as well be inching through thick treacle.

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