Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2025
Do ants think? Do bees feel?
Animals were once considered mindless—incapable of thoughts or feelings.
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Plants & Animals
Jun 19, 2025
Asian needle ant: It's venomous, invasive and might be in your backyard
Mellissa Hairston has been living in the Atlanta area for 15 years. But it wasn't until Memorial Day 2024, while soaking up the sun from her Milton home's hot tub, that the mother of four crossed paths with the Asian needle ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2025
Fire ants may offer insight into crippling honey bee disease
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are helping to protect honey bee populations while developing new strategies for managing fire ant populations. Honey bees are a vital part of pollinating our crops, while fire ...
Ecology
Jun 16, 2025
What tiny molecules in ants and naked mole-rats can tell us about societal roles
From the bright lights of cities that don't sleep—where people hustle and bustle through the night to keep subways, servers, and supply chains alive—to the whisper-dark understory of tropical forests where ants hum in syncopated ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2025
Swarm intelligence directs longhorn crazy ants to clear the road ahead for sisters carrying bulky food
Among the tens of thousands of ant species, incredible "intelligent" behaviors like crop culture, animal husbandry, surgery, "piracy," social distancing, and complex architecture have evolved.
General Physics
Jun 10, 2025
'Link-bots' can move, explore, cooperate without sensing or computation
Coordinated behaviors like swarming—from ant colonies to schools of fish—are found everywhere in nature. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have given a nod to nature ...
Ecology
Jun 5, 2025
The Top End's tropical savannas are a natural wonder—but weak environment laws mean their future is uncertain
The Top End of Australia's Northern Territory contains an extensive, awe-inspiring expanse of tropical savanna landscapes. It includes well-known and much-loved regions such as Darwin, Kakadu National Park, Arnhem Land and ...
Plants & Animals
May 12, 2025
Fire ant colonies can switch from single to multiple queens under minority influence
Groups of social animals, including humans, can make complex decisions without a single central leader. Those choices aren't always made by the majority, however.
Plants & Animals
Apr 30, 2025
Loss of nature's 'unsung heroes' threatens ecosystems
A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has put to the test what happens when dominant ant species vanish from the ecosystem—with worrying results.
Evolution
Apr 24, 2025
Scythe-jawed hell ant from 113 million years ago is oldest known specimen
A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report published in Current Biology. The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member ...
