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May 22, 2023 Ants' brains are amazingly sophisticated organs that enable them to coordinate complex behavior patterns such as the organization of colonies. Now, researchers have developed a method that ...
Nov. 16, 2021 Ant colonies use fluids passed mouth-to-mouth to create a colony-wide metabolism, shows a new ...
Nov. 30, 2022 Life in an ant colony is a symphony of subtle interactions between insects acting in concert, more like cells in tissue than independent organisms bunking in a colony. Now, researchers have ...
June 22, 2021 Oregon State University research has identified the oldest known specimen of a fungus parasitizing an ant, and the fossil also represents a new fungal genus and ...
July 22, 2022 Colonies decide to flee rising temperatures in much the same way that neural computations give rise to ...
Aug. 9, 2022 Scientists have developed a small robot to understand how ants teach one ...
Jan. 19, 2023 Ants are social insects and the Solenopsis invicta species -- known as the fire ant -- is no exception. The social interactions of this invasive insect, which comes from South America, are framed ...
Sep. 7, 2023 In many animals, including ants, the blood-brain barrier (BBB) ensures normal brain function by controlling the movement of various substances in and out of the brain. Now, researchers have made the ...
Jan. 30, 2023 If you've ever watched an ant searching for food, you probably assumed that they were just covering ground in a random fashion. But a study now finds that at least one species of rock ant ...
May 27, 2021 According to the results of a multi-year scientific study, ants of the species Temnothorax nylanderi show exceptionally high survival rates when infected with a ...