Ants are among the most physically fragile insects on the planet, yet they dominate almost every land habitat and outweigh ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

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Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? As silly as it sounds, the question captures a real ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

Backyard ants use ancient, targeted antimicrobial strategies that could inspire new ways to fight drug-resistant superbugs in humans.

"Humans have relied on antibiotics for less than a century, yet many pathogens have already evolved resistance, giving rise ...

It grows quickly and depends on adult worker ants to feed it. These workers decide how much and what kind of food the larva ...

Has a crucial component to the development of human medicine been hiding under our feet? Auburn University Assistant ...

Research shows that some ants have learned how to treat their wounds, revealing one of the clearest examples of medical ...

Climate shapes how ants and parasite interact, fight, and evolve as temperature and humidity drive behavior and genetic ...

Ant colonies operate with such tight coordination that scientists often compare them to a single living organism, a “superorganism” in which thousands of ants function like the cells of a body. New ...