Ants do not need a foreman to raise a city. Working with little more than local cues, they excavate tunnels, pile up soil, ...

“This fossil reveals the mechanism behind what we might call an ‘evolutionary experiment.'" Even something as ubiquitous and familiar as ants have undergone extinction. The hell ant is thought to have ...

Tiny ants could affect carbon storage in the soil and alter the global climate balance, according to scientists.

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 ...

A groundbreaking study has uncovered that ants actively modify their nest networks to combat the spread of diseases within their colonies. This remarkable behavior showcases the ants’ ability to adapt ...

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 ...

When an ant injures its leg, it sometimes will turn to a buddy who will help out by gnawing the leg off, effectively performing a lifesaving limb amputation. That’s according to some new experiments ...

This is the most endearingly strange thing you’ll watch all day. Andrew Quitmeyer, a PhD student at Georgia Tech, has alerted us to his handy video tutorial on painting ants for scientific experiments ...

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 ...