Right now, House of the Dragon fans are settling in for a season of backstabbing, violence, and betrayal. And so am I, because I’m watching a YouTuber build a 1,000 gallon vivarium full of hostile ant ...

Ants in space is not the premise for the latest Dreamworks film, but for an experiment carried out aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Eight colonies of common ants were flown up to the ISS ...

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

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

While humanity has spent the past two years suffering from the Covid-19 pandemic, in Texas a peculiar outbreak has been ravaging the tawny crazy ant. (Yes, that’s its real name.) Originally from South ...

On her first trek through the rain forest, in 2000, the artist Catherine Chalmers noticed movement on the ground near her feet. It was a parade of thousands of leaf-cutter ants. “There’s these ...

Queen ants live far longer than genetically identical workers. Researchers are learning what their longevity secrets could mean for aging in other species. Animals that produce many offspring tend to ...

A new genetics study of ant “social parasites” shows how complex sets of features can emerge rapidly and potentially split species. When the researcher Daniel Kronauer was still a postdoc in 2008, he ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The world's human population is forecast to surpass 8 billion in the coming months. Compared to ants, that is a mediocre milestone. Researchers have made the most ...