Scientists have long been fascinated by collective intelligence, the idea that groups can solve problems better than ...

There are only two animals capable of transporting an object so large that it can only be moved by cooperating: humans and ...

Ants beat humans in group tasks, excelling at collective problem-solving in a maze. Humans did better individually but ...

The piano-mover puzzle involves trying to transport an oddly shaped load across a constricted environment with various ...

Ants and humans are also the only creatures in nature that consistently cooperate while transporting large loads that greatly exceed their own dimensions. Prof. Ofer Feinerman and his team at the ...

A Weizmann Institute experiment found that cooperation proved more effective for ants than for humans. Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that they are highly social creatures; it’s ...

Making Challenge A Weizmann Institute study led by Prof. Ofer Feinerman pitted ants and humans against each other in a maze navigation experiment designed to test group cooperation. While humans ...