Scientists have successfully replicated the behaviour of a colony of ants on the move with the use of miniature robots, as reported in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.

Electronics - Robotics

Mar 28, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 1 |

(Phys.org)—Biologists from Western University have discovered that insects recover from chill-coma by getting water and salt back where it belongs. These findings, published online today by Proceedings of ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 27, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Although Charles Darwin is most well-known for his book On the Origin of Species, in which he described the process of natural selection, he greatly contributed to many specific fields within biology. As ...

Biology - Evolution

Dec 09, 2009 5 / 5 (1) 0

They may only be 1.5mm in size, but the tiny wasps that pollinate fig trees can travel over 160km in less than 48 hours, according to research from scientists at the University of Leeds. The fig wasps are transporting ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 09, 2009 5 / 5 (4) 0

Insects such as honeybees and bumble bees are predictable in the way they move among flowers, typically moving directly from one flower to an adjacent cluster of flowers in the same row of plants. The bees' ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

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