Ants have evolved an acute sense of smell, which requires each sensory neuron to choose one scent receptor out of hundreds.

You can't turn on an NBA post-game show or national sports podcast without hearing someone well-regarded saying very nice things about the Timberwolves. More often than not, the first recipient of ...

Ants are tiny powerhouses that can lift 100 times their weight and fend off lions. They have also lived on Earth for millions of years longer than previously thought. That’s according to researchers ...

Ants transported by humans out of their native zones reshape ant communities worldwide. A recent study in Nature Communications by the Department of Ecology and Evolution at UNIL shows that our impact ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report publishing in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 24.

Giant, man-made supersoldiers have made the leap from the realm of science fiction to reality with a little help from an international team of scientists. These chemically induced warriors are quite ...

A 113-million-year-old fossilized ant is the oldest ever discovered. The “remarkably well-preserved" hell ant was found in limestone in Brazil. Scientists say it is a member of Haidomyrmecinae - an ...

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Not literally, of course. But similarly to an ant colony, two scientists say our collective culture—not genetics—has become ...

For centuries we have believed that humans were unique in the ability to farm and cultivate food. However, it turns out that ...

Aim: The latitudinal diversity gradient is the dominant geographic pattern of life on Earth, but a consensus understanding of its origins has remained elusive. The analysis of recently diverged, hyper ...