Tiny Ants Just Proved They're Better at Teamwork Than Humans Ever Were ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. "Humans have relied on antibiotics for less than a century, yet many pathogens have already evolved resistance, giving rise to ...

Think back to a time you helped someone move a heavy object, such as a couch. While at first the task may have appeared simple, it actually required a suite of advanced behaviors. The job needed ...

This efficiency has fascinated engineers, computer scientists, and urban planners, who have spent decades trying to understand how ants achieve it. The secret is communication—though not in the way we ...

How thousands of tiny brains, obeying simple rules, solve problems no individual can understand. Ant bridges, bee hives and bird flocks all show how intelligent behavior can emerge to solve impossible ...

Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds. In a new study published in Nature, researchers at New York University have ...

Humans are not the only animals to have a dedicated health care system. Some super-organized ant species not only recognize that their comrade is injured but actually carry them back to the ant nest ...