If you’re reading this, you’re probably not an ant. In fact, it is exceedingly likely that you’re human. Perhaps you’re a construction worker, laying bricks for a new high-rise building downtown. Or ...

(Nanowerk News) Individual ants are relatively simple creatures and yet a colony of ants can perform really complex tasks, such as intricate construction, foraging and defense. Recently, Harvard ...

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 ...

Researchers took inspiration from ants to design a team of relatively simple robots that can work collectively to perform complex tasks using only a few basic parameters. Individual ants are ...

Individual ants are relatively simple creatures and yet a colony of ants can perform really complex tasks, such as intricate construction, foraging and defense. Recently, Harvard researchers took ...

When we think of elite athletes, we usually think of humans or animals. But, get ready to see things differently. Bull ants are tiny but mighty. They have the strength of African elephants and work ...

When ants work together to defend their colony, it’s all for one and one for all. This model could help forge an immediate global, coordinated, and effective response to cyberattacks. When an ant ...

Ants work together to take care of each other. If you lie around sleeping instead of going to school, you'll end up poor and wanting. This is Proverbs 6:6-11, paraphrased wildly. By extension, if ...

Swarms of cooperative robots conjure images of a dystopian nightmare world in which humanity is clinging to the final threads of its survival. In reality, autonomously cooperative robots are smaller, ...