One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new ...

Stories of camel spiders and their aggressive nature have been told for generations. Tales of these critters running at high ...

Scientists discover a “runaway bulldozer” in ant DNA that silences smell genes, keeping chemical communication - and colony ...

The emergent complexity of ant societies is one of the most fascinating phenomena in the natural world: how do these tiny creatures form such intricate social networks? These networks are so nuanced ...

In the U.S., all commercial brands of yogurt taste really similar because they're made pretty much the same way, using only two industrial bacterial starters. But this wasn't always the case, says ...

Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their ...

A supercolony of ants has been discovered stretching thousands of miles from the Italian Riviera along the coastline to northwest Spain. It's the largest cooperative unit ever recorded, according to ...

Set out baits labeled for carpenter ants. Baits can be effective because ants share food with each other, says Benson. Place ...

Ants have an incredible capacity to work together for the good of the collective, but a freshly discovered species shows just how far they are willing to go. Colobopsis explodens has been observed in ...

An ant colony in Poland has been the focus of scientists for several years now. More accurately, the scientists are studying two colonies, one "normal" colony of wood ants who live in a dirt mound on ...

Ice cream, mascarpone and milk-washed cocktails may sound like simple pleasures — but the ones served at a ...