The findings, which highlight a fundamental biological tradeoff, suggest that social complexity can arise when individuals ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

Argentine ants compete with bumble bees for prized nectar sources. But the bees are fighting back. Find out how.

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Abstract: Aiming at the characteristics of multi-constraints and multi-optimization objectives in manipulator truss assembly tasks, a truss assembly sequence planning method based on ant colony ...

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? The famous question, though implausible, reflects a ...

The rapid diversification of ants has “led to their role as ecological engineers” that can work in habitats across the world, ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...