Deep in the forests of Borneo lives one of the most extraordinary insects ever discovered: the exploding ant. When its colony ...

Imagine two ship crews marooned on opposite coasts of the same wild and inhospitable island. One group drops seafaring formalities and coalesces around collective survival. They tend to each other, ...

Using mathematical modeling, Tarnita explores how animals self-organize in groups and what causes regular spatial patterns to ...

Ant hills spread quickly, but these three simple methods eliminate colonies before they take over your entire yard.

Ant hills spread quickly, but these three simple methods eliminate colonies before they take over your entire yard.

Ants can be a nuisance in your yard and garden. Luckily, there are several easy ways to eliminate ant hills in your yard once ...

And one queen who rules over them all. Her only job is to have every child the colony will ever rear. For decades scientists ...

These bestselling ant traps will actually get rid of your problem There are many great things about summer, but one thing ...

Discover how ants build their colonies, when they actually harm your lawn, and which proven home remedies drive them out without damaging the grass. Ants in lawn areas might look harmless at first — ...

A Colobopsis cf. explodens (Exploding Ant) crawling on tree bark in the rainforest of Sumatra, Indonesia. Known for its self-destructive defense mechanism.© MDong_97/Shutterstock.com Ants are ...

Ants are supremely social animals. They have an extraordinary ability to organize themselves and an inherent drive to prioritize the needs of their colony over their own. Some ants have taken this to ...

Researchers at the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) and the University of the Ryukyus have developed a new imaging method that makes it possible to see, in real time, how ...