A new study shows how ants grow huge colonies by choosing numbers over strength and relying on teamwork instead of tough ...

Tiny pharaoh ants slip through cracks, spread through walls and pipes, and can infest entire buildings—including hospitals ...

Learn how ants traded individual protection for collective power — and what it reveals about how complex societies evolve.

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? As silly as it sounds, the question captures a real ...

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses?The famous question, though implausible, reflects a ubiquitous tradeoff between ...

Here’s a fun (and creepy) fact: The Earth is home to approximately 20 quadrillion ants. To put zeroes on it, that’s around 20,000,000,000,000,000 of the six-legged insects living all around us. How ...

The rapid diversification of ants has “led to their role as ecological engineers” that can work in habitats across the world, ...

US military conducts strike on three suspected narco-terrorist boats in international waters Judge refuses to grant Sarah ...

Two new studies show how climate influences behavior, communication, and genome evolution—driving adaptation in a ...

Abstract: This paper compared and contrasted ant colony algorithm (ACO) and genetic algorithm (GA) application in path planning. Through experiments in environments with different complexity, two ...

Kspeka joins host Robin Young to talk about ants, including the spiny queen, who invades colonies of carpenter ants using a ...