Ant societies rely on precise recognition systems to maintain cooperation, but new research reveals that these systems are more adaptable than once believed. For ants, quickly telling friend from foe ...
In this video, I raised a queen trap-jaw ant into an entire ant colony and simulated real-world events to observe the ants' reactions. The unexpected ending sets the stage for another video. #ants ...
Humans are not the only animals to have a dedicated health care system. Some super-organized ant species not only recognize that their comrade is injured but actually carry them back to the ant nest ...
The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions. By Ari Daniel Ari Daniel previously reported on a tropical ...
Nigel Andrew is an editor of Austral Ecology and subject editor (Zoology) for PeerJ. He played no part in the double-blind peer-review process of the Austral Ecology research paper this article draws ...
A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic queens that try to take over other colonies. When you purchase through links on ...
Objective Sport Mental Health Assessment Tool 1 (SMHAT-1) ensures comprehensive and reliable mental health screening in athletes. However, its triage’s predictive validity varies depending on the ...
This project is an educational and research-oriented implementation that benchmarks and compares different metaheuristic algorithms for solving VRPTW problems. The VRPTW is a classic NP-hard ...
WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Cadence Design Systems on Tuesday rolled out a virtual artificial intelligence "agent" to help firms like Nvidia speed up the complex process of designing computer chips ...
Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...
Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that makes them forever reliant on their hosts Sceptobius beetles groom ants to ...
A professional python hunter in Florida needed assistance from family members to uncoil a giant Burmese python from his body and to ultimately subdue the second-heaviest python ever caught in Florida.