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

For centuries we have believed that humans were unique in the ability to farm and cultivate food. However, it turns out that ants have been growing their own food well before humans ever planted a ...

Among the tens of thousands of ant species, incredible ‘intelligent’ behaviors like crop culture, animal husbandry, surgery, ‘piracy’, social distancing, and complex architecture have evolved. Yet at ...

The ants get food, and the fungi get room and board, plus careful tending by the ants and the chance to spread as the insects stake out new territory. “When a daughter queen gets ready to leave her ...

Researchers have discovered that in a foraging ant's search for food, it will leave pheromone trails connecting its colony to multiple food sources when they're available, successfully creating the ...

The restaurant’s ant-ics began when staff noticed that milk started to curdle when a chef left it in a fridge with an ant inside. This led to experiments involving anthropologists, culinary innovators ...

We have all been in that situation: the moving boxes are large and heavy, but we are determined to carry them all in one trip, even if that means we can’t see where we’re going. In the tropics, some ...