Last March, at a lodge in coastal Mexico, I stood in a courtyard admiring the jasmine and hibiscus and I happened to look down. Along the edges of the terrace, thousands of ants were marching in tidy, ...

Ants build complex, resource efficient networks with no central planning–that’s definitely something humans can learn a thing or two about. Go to a park and look down at the ground. A colony of ants ...

Seriously speaking, even these tiny, apparently frail creatures have been gifted with a lot more than evident. Prospects of an ant being crushed by an elephant are far dimmer than the giant animal ...

A new type of collective behaviour in ants has been revealed by an international team of scientists, headed by biologist Professor Iain Couzin, co-director of the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the ...

I bought another small farm last week. I’m still pretty excited about that. OK, so I should probably note that it’s only a plastic Ant Farm, but I’m excited just the same. I know you might be ...

Ants are doubly annoying because the minute I started checking, they taught me how dreadfully ignorant I am. Definitely on the subject of ants. Unless you too are in the habit of picking one up to ...

When we talk about ants, the picture that comes to ours minds is that of hard workers, laborious and team workers. Many management lessons can be learned by the way these small creatures function. The ...

Ants produce diverse, targeted antimicrobial compounds that inhibit drug-resistant pathogens, offering insights for new ...

Science Desk, Jan 27 (EFE).- A team of French scientists is on a quest to teach ants how to sniff out the early stages of cancer in humans and have claimed in a recent study that the tiny insects have ...

Professors from the University of Trento have studied ant behavior to understand how these insects navigate efficiently ...