A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats ...

Ants rely on scent to recognise their comrades, and when they are exposed to common air pollutants, other members of their ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats affected by air pollution are attacked when they re-enter the colony. The ...

Discover the fascinating step-by-step process of creating a unique, spider-shaped DIY ant farm from scratch. Watch as acrylic ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

A few months ago, I awoke to find a streak spanning the length of my kitchen wall that looked like it had been drawn there ...

An ant colony is not just a group of insects. It is a single biological system spread across thousands or millions of bodies. This video explores how ant colonies communicate, adapt, and make ...

Ant colony system (ACS) based algorithm for the dynamic vehicle routing problem with time windows (DVRPTW). For more details, see this paper "Necula, R., Breaban, M., & Raschip, M.: Tackling Dynamic ...

"By warning the colony of their deadly infection, terminally ill ants help the colony remain healthy and produce daughter colonies, which indirectly pass on the signaler’s genes to the next generation ...

New research shows that terminally ill baby ants tell other ants to kill them, potentially protecting the rest of the colony from their infection. In a study published today in the journal Nature ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...