According to a new study out of Rockefeller University, the way that ant colonies make group decisions closely mimics the way neurons behave in the human brain. In other words, they follow a colony ...

Biologist E.O. Wilson once wrote that "ants are the most warlike of all animals," noting that clashes between ant colonies dwarfed the human battles at Waterloo and Gettysburg. But sometimes ant ...

The unusual life cycles of ants are deeply rooted in their social nature. Ants and other social insects like termites, some bees, and certain wasps live in colonies, in which most individuals never ...

A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic ...

Ant colonies make decisions similarly to neural networks in the brain. The corresponding study was published in PNAS. At a basic level, decision-making may be conceived as a series of computations ...