After witnessing the interactions in an Arizona desert, a Smithsonian researcher suggests that the little ants picked off ...

Ant foraging behaviour is a paradigmatic example of sophisticated social coordination in the animal kingdom. Central to their success is the use of chemical signals, particularly trail pheromones, ...

In the spring, ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting ...

A harvester ant typically approaches a cone ant nest and stands upright with her mandibles open (all worker ants are female).

Professor Deborah Gordon recently sent hundreds of ants to the orbiting International Space Station. By studying how the ants adjust their behavior to cope with near-zero gravity conditions, ...

Ants are particularly good at avoiding traffic jams and can move about their business even when they occupy more than 80% of the available space – twice the value that stymies human pedestrians or ...

Ants are social insects and the Solenopsis invicta species -- known as the fire ant -- is no exception. The social interactions of this invasive insect, which comes from South America, are framed ...

In many animals, including ants, the blood-brain barrier (BBB) ensures normal brain function by controlling the movement of various substances in and out of the brain. Now, researchers have made the ...

Scientists discover desert ants forming a rare cleaning partnership, challenging what we know about insect behavior and ...

Great discoveries lie at the edge of chaos, and nature provides perhaps the best inspiration for finding order in anarchy. Fish school, birds flock, fireflies sync and ants colonize. This type of ...