For ants, the ability to instantly distinguish nestmates from outsiders who might hijack the colony is crucial. Now, a new ...
A colony of leafcutter ants is home to more than just one species. Each year, studies reveal new layers of complexity in ...
Scientists created a massive digital library of ants using synchrotron X-ray scanning, robotics, and artificial intelligence. The Antscan project produced interactive 3D models of 800 species, ...
Yet swarms of fireflies clearly exercise a level of control over when they light up, and they do so only in specialized organs, and those are aspects scientists are still keen to understand better.