Researchers in Spain have discovered that in collectives of moving fire ants, rippling "waves" of density and activity are ...

Agricultural nano-technology firm ANT Systems has begun industrial-scale production of NANOTERN™, a biodegradable, ...

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Some coral reef ecosystems famously have “cleaning stations,” where fish line up to be cleaned by other species of fish and shrimp. Entomologist Mark Moffet recently published observations of what ...

In the clonal raider ant (Ooceraea biroi), workers in a colony alternate between caring for larvae and laying eggs in a coordinated cycle. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology ...

A system-wide approach The new tool, called the UC Way Hypertension Medication Algorithm, follows a stepwise approach to increasing medication types and doses, while allowing clinicians to adjust ...

A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic queens that try to take over other colonies. A rare ant species in Japan has no ...

Google Discover is largely a mystery to publishers and the search marketing community even though Google has published official guidance about what it is and what they feel publishers should know ...

Ant International used to be focused on moving money faster. Now, it is also quietly rebuilding the plumbing of corporate treasury. Over the past two years the company has spun out of Ant Group, ...

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on their own mother. By Rebecca Dzombak Rebecca Dzombak previously reported on ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...