The ant recognition system is flexible, allowing ants to learn and tolerate outsiders while still recognizing their own kind.

Scientists created a massive digital library of ants using synchrotron X-ray scanning, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ant species can amputate each other's legs and can also determine whether it is needed depending on the location of the wound, ...

An international research team has built the largest three-dimensional digital library of ants ever assembled, scanning more ...

An estimated 20 quadrillion ants belonging to more than 15,000 known species currently crawl across the Earth. Those huge ...

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 ...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong and the University of Würzburg in Germany found that there are more ants than there are birds and mammals combined on Earth. In a recent study published in ...

Physicists and biologists have published a study detailing how underground analysis of fire ants proves the little critters have a lot to teach future search and rescue robots about working in cramped ...

Ants are packing up their families, including their queen, and hopping in a car for a ride to a new area where they can set up a home, according to a recent study. Yang recently published a paper in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ants, milk and a pinch of culinary history: Researchers have investigated an unusual yoghurt recipe and find it does indeed work ...