Tag: ants

The same asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have led ants to farm fungus.

Nature can be a good source of inspiration.

It’s a highly effective therapy, significantly reducing mortality rates

Ever wonder why something so tiny can hurt so bad?

Infected ants don’t work, are cared for and live much longer than usual.

These spiders have learned to walk like ants and look like flowers, but can these tricks help them escape their ...

Flying ants, an annual nuisance

The injured ant communicates the problem, and then the "doctors" come in. Some of these techniques have only been seen ...

Evenly spaced zinc atoms allows the ant's mandible to pack a powerful punch.

When they are together, they work like a single unit, protecting their colony

Sometimes, speed is of the essence.

Leaf-cutter ant workers have a magnesium-rich biomineral armor that you'd expect to see in crustaceans rather than insects.

Worker ants evolved strong thorax muscles for carrying loads many times their weight after losing their ability to fly.

Intelligence and resilience can be found all across the natural world.

A chicken and egg problem -- rehashed in an unlikely scenario.

Accidental domestication still counts, right?

New insights into what makes ants such fantastic navigators.

Maybe it's time for a vacation.

"Ants are smarter than we give them credit for" is something we seem to write a lot - and yet ...

Most ants scavenge your picnic, but these ones don't need anything.

Starving your crops might seem counterintuitive, but these ants have a pretty good reason for it.

Inspired by ants, researchers mimicked the insects' individual super strength and collective hive mind in tiny robots. Each weighs only ...

Ant colonies are incredibly complex systems -- the tightly knit, intensely cooperative colonies are closer to a single superorganism than ...

Different ant species employ various tactics to forage food and keep the colony in tip top shape. Most often scouts ...

If you ever dropped food on the pavement, don't feel too bad. It'll get scrapped bit by bit by the ...

Ionic liquids (IL) are basically liquid salts with very low melting points, that are extensively used in industry. It's only ...

Ants are absolutely fascinating creatures. Not only have they discovered farming and animal husbandry thousands of years before us (sometimes ...

Researchers at The Rockefeller University and Paris University 13 have been studying a peculiar, yet highly fascinating ant species called Cerapachys biroi. ...

Last year, we reported on one of the most gruesome and horrific acts that goes on in nature; it seems ...

Ants are most amazing creatures, and there's so much we could learn from them I wouldn't even know where to ...

Researchers from Arizona State University and Princeton University conducted a study that goes to show that our 'multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, ...

Photo by Mark W. Moffet Seeing all the available houses in the neighborhood and then choosing is not necessarily the ...