A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats ...

A single queen in the tropics; large colonies in deserts; workers with uniform morphology in temperate regions; ant social ...

A few months ago, I awoke to find a streak spanning the length of my kitchen wall that looked like it had been drawn there ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats affected by air pollution are attacked when they re-enter the colony. The ...

Air pollution may be turning ants against their own families, according to new research which suggests that such pollution ...

The “Ants and Agriculture” exhibit in the Microbial Sciences Building closed Thursday with staff and students gathering to say their goodbyes to the ant colony. Forty people watched as the Currie Lab ...

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 ...

Biological Sciences Asst. Prof. Christina Kwapich became hooked on ants after reading “The Ants” by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson when she was about 9 years old. The Pulitzer Prize-winning book set ...

Ants are many things. They're hard workers and intensely social. They're quite strong for their size. And now they may also be a source of architectural inspiration too — for designing spaces that ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Ants are fascinating creatures. Far more than a simple picnic pest or inspiring hero moving a rubber tree plant, ants are complex ...

Liane Hansen talks with ant specialist Laurent Keller of Switzerland's University of Lausanna about a super ant colony in Europe that spans 6,300 kilometers. According to Keller, the colony is ...