In the spring, ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting ...

After witnessing the interactions in an Arizona desert, a Smithsonian researcher suggests that the little ants picked off ...

Professor Deborah Gordon recently sent hundreds of ants to the orbiting International Space Station. By studying how the ants adjust their behavior to cope with near-zero gravity conditions, ...

In 2006, biologist Mark Moffett noticed an unusual behavior. The usually aggressive harvester ants would park themselves near ...

Mark Moffett, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, specializes in capturing the often-overlooked ...

Banded Sugar Ant (Camponotus consobrinus) closeup isolated on white background, Banded sugar ants line up in a circle on isolated background, Group banded sugar ants line up in a circle© Kurit ...

Researchers at Harvard have developed a fleet of robotic ants that mimic the self-organizing ...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) has been found to play a significant role in controlling behavior critical to how ant colonies function, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at ...

In many animals, including ants, the blood-brain barrier (BBB) ensures normal brain function by controlling the movement of various substances in and out of the brain. Now, researchers have made the ...

Despite having identical genes, carpenter worker ants vary wildly in their behaviors and appearances. Major workers fight off predators and are bulkier than minor workers that gather food and tend to ...

You’ve probably never seen a Dracula ant, as these elusive insects spend their days tunneling through the leaf litter and ...