If you’re reading this, you’re probably not an ant. In fact, it is exceedingly likely that you’re human. Perhaps you’re a construction worker, laying bricks for a new high-rise building downtown. Or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Weaver ants work as a team to build bridges and create nests in trees. Nature has once again proven to be an efficient designer, ...

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute use time-lapse tech and geometry to probe the collective cognitive unit of weaver ants ...

Researchers took inspiration from ants to design a team of relatively simple robots that can work collectively to perform complex tasks using only a few basic parameters. Individual ants are ...

Biochar may improve soil, but too much can harm ants, disrupting their behavior, teamwork, and the health of the ecosystem.

Summary: New research reveals that the ability of ants to distinguish nestmates from outsiders is a highly flexible, learned behavior rather than a rigid genetic program. Using clonal raider ants, ...

Ant colonies operate as tightly coordinated "superorganisms" with individual ants working together, much like the cells of a body, to ensure their collective health. Researchers at the Institute of ...

Individual ants are relatively simple creatures and yet a colony of ants can perform really complex tasks, such as intricate construction, foraging and defense. Recently, Harvard researchers took ...

(Nanowerk News) Individual ants are relatively simple creatures and yet a colony of ants can perform really complex tasks, such as intricate construction, foraging and defense. Recently, Harvard ...