One ant is not very smart, but put a bunch of them together and they can achieve some remarkable things. Inspired by this emergent cooperative behavior, Harvard researchers have built robots that can ...

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch of Orbital Sciences Corp.’s commercial Cygnus spacecraft on Tuesday, Jan. 7 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, which will be ...

Researchers in Japan discovered that ants placed in isolation die younger due to an accumulation of reactive oxygen, a ...

Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it's rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and ...

How many ants does it take to build a raft? This sounds like a riddle, and in a way, it is. Scientists whose interests in insects and fluid mechanics intersect have been wondering how fire ants stick ...

An experiment to make woodland more resilient has seen hairy wood ant nests relocated across forests. Forestry England moved six colonies with thousands of ants from Cropton Forest in North Yorkshire ...

Ants are renowned for their industriousness. Ask the grasshopper in the story by Aesop. He had to come begging the hardworking ant for food when winter came because he had frittered away his summer.