In humans, social complexity usually involves clear governance hierarchies, with leaders and middle managers directing our ...

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Ant colonies survive because individuals are willing to die. New research shows that some of the most vulnerable members, immobile pupae sealed in their cocoons, can sense when they are fatally ...

New research shows that terminally ill baby ants tell other ants to kill them, potentially protecting the rest of the colony from their infection. In a study published today in the journal Nature ...

In the 2012 “Avengers” movie, God of Mischief Loki said, “An ant has no quarrel with a boot.” But a soldier stationed at Joint Base Lewis McCord, Washington has a quarrel with an ant — rather an ...

Yet tiny-brained ants, working without leaders or blueprints, have been solving problems like these for millions of years – and no, the queen isn’t the boss telling them what to do.      By almost any ...