Tag: ants

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.

On the island of New Guinea, researchers have stumbled across two new fascinating species.

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 ...