"Humans have relied on antibiotics for less than a century, yet many pathogens have already evolved resistance, giving rise to 'superbugs.' Ants, by contrast, have been using antibiotics for tens of ...

Tanya Latty co-founded and volunteers for conservation organisation Invertebrates Australia, is former president of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour and is on the education ...

Ants coordinate highly complex foraging and traffic systems without any leaders, relying entirely on local interactions and chemical cues. Pheromone trails encode information about distance, food ...

Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds. In a new study published in Nature, researchers at New York University have ...

ANTS seem to have cracked a problem we humans haven’t. While our cars get clogged in jams, ants help each other to move around their colony much more efficiently. Understanding how they do this could ...