The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface ...

Insects like ants heal their fellow species, and they even perform surgeries. Biologist Erik Frank is researching their ...

Comparing group and individual cognition is difficult, as they usually address different problems. However, ants and humans excel at navigating large loads through complex environments as individuals ...

"One exception is the problem of navigating large loads through complex environments and toward a given target. People and ants stand out in their ability to efficiently perform this task not just ...

The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface of a tree, perpetually hunting for food. While doing so, each ...

What makes this study, published in PNAS, particularly fascinating is that both ants and humans are among the few species known to cooperatively transport large objects in nature. In fact, of the ...

Ants and humans competed in navigating a maze with a large load. While humans outperformed individually, ant groups excelled collectively, showing strategic coordination and persistence. The study ...

Rudy Gobert finishes a big alley-oop dunk, but Anthony Edwards is issued a technical foul for flexing on the play.

one small group of 7 ants, and one large group of 80 ants. Humans also had to solve the puzzle in three combinations: one single person, one group of 6-9 individuals, and a larger group of 26.

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...