Weaver ants’ feet have an incredibly strong grip—individual members of one species can, without slipping, hold an entire dead bird hanging off the edge of a table. And the mighty insects rarely work ...

In the late 19th century, the French engineer Max Ringelmann conducted an experiment that might have looked more like a game at an elementary school field day. Ringelmann gathered students and had ...

Weaver ants have cracked a teamwork challenge humans have struggled with for centuries. New research shows that individual weaver ants get stronger as their group grows, a sharp contrast to human ...