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 ...

Pheromone trails encode information about distance, food quality, and danger, allowing colonies to adapt and optimize paths in real time. Ant-inspired strategies, like ant colony optimization, inform ...

Researchers have observed sick adult ants leaving their colony to avoid sickening others. Now, they've discovered that terminally ill young ants or pupae, unable to move in their silken cocoons, have ...

Do you ever feel as if you could do your bosses' jobs better than they can? Or do you ever think about marching into a whole new career? If so, new research from the University of Arizona suggests ...

Quick Take 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 ...