Ants are doubly annoying because the minute I started checking, they taught me how dreadfully ignorant I am. Definitely on the subject of ants. Unless you too are in the habit of picking one up to ...

A new type of collective behaviour in ants has been revealed by an international team of scientists, headed by biologist Professor Iain Couzin, co-director of the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the ...

Ants – with their wise farming practices and efficient navigation techniques – could inspire solutions for some human problems. From The Conversation, by Scott Solomon, Associate Teaching Professor of ...

Ioannis Pisokas has received funding from the University of Edinburgh. Ajay Narendra receives funding from Australian Research Council, Hermon Slade Foundation. Ayse Yilmaz-Heusinger does not work for ...

Scott Solomon receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Big Thicket Association. King Solomon may have gained some of his famed wisdom from an unlikely source – ants. According to ...

Scientists look at how ants dig tunnels, and come up with some surprising results. Slip beneath the surface and the above-ground simplicity of an ant hill gives way to subterranean complexity. Tunnels ...