An analysis of ant colony behavior could yield better algorithms for network communication, say investigators. Biologists have long suspected that ants base their population-density estimates on the ...

Harvester ant colonies are able to decide how many foragers they need to send out of the nest by using a protocol system that’s eerily similar to the one IT professionals use to determine how much ...

For the past three decades Deborah Gordon has devoted herself to studying ant colonies in the Arizona desert. Although her chosen subject – the red harvester ant – isn’t much to look at, when they ...