Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While one would be hard-pressed to find virtually any similarities between ants and humans, the two species seem to share an ...

Ants use their numbers to overcome navigational challenges that are too large and disorienting to be tackled by any single individual, reports a new study. Ants use their numbers to overcome ...

Researchers created two sets of mazes that only differed in size to match the dimensions of ants and humans, as well as groups of different sizes. Being small does not mean being less intelligent or ...

An analysis of how ants quickly find new routes in a changing maze reveals techniques that could be useful to systems engineers. The research, reported in the Journal of Experimental Biology, shows ...

The new leafcutter ant colony now making its debut at Montreal’s Insectarium showcases the ants’ incredibly complex society — a maze of 20,000 to 30,000 little doers with various predetermined fates ...

Ants use their numbers to overcome navigational challenges that are too large and disorienting to be tackled by any single individual, reports a new study in the open-access journal eLife. The results ...