Unexpected unfolds as a simple experiment turns into a fascinating look inside an ant colony. Orbeez are poured into an ...

One ant is not very smart, but put a bunch of them together and they can achieve some remarkable things. Inspired by this emergent cooperative behavior, Harvard researchers have built robots that can ...

Researchers in Spain have discovered that in collectives of moving fire ants, rippling "waves" of density and activity are ...

Watch as translucent ants consume vibrant colored sugar water in this captivating time-lapse experiment. See how their abdomens gradually change to blue, green, and red, revealing their fascinating ...

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch of Orbital Sciences Corp.’s commercial Cygnus spacecraft on Tuesday, Jan. 7 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, which will be ...

Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it's rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and ...

Researchers in Japan discovered that ants placed in isolation die younger due to an accumulation of reactive oxygen, a ...

An experiment to make woodland more resilient has seen hairy wood ant nests relocated across forests. Forestry England moved six colonies with thousands of ants from Cropton Forest in North Yorkshire ...

A colony of rock ants, Temnothorax albipennis, inside the artificial colony, a cutout in a piece of gray cardboard sandwiched between two glass slides. The number written on the upper slide is the ...