When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, we had to completely reorganize our spaces to avoid close contact. Transparent barriers ...

Ants react to social isolation in a similar way as do humans and other social mammals. A study by an Israeli-German research team has revealed alterations to the social and hygienic behavior of ants ...

Ants make a series of clever architectural adjustments to their nests to prevent the spread of disease, University of Bristol ...

Ants have social networks, and they exchange info through vomit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ants have social networks just ...

Source: Princeton University Press/with permission. Ants are fascinating and remarkably intelligent insects who live in complex social groups called colonies. 1,2 When I first learned about ant expert ...

Even the earliest ants may have been social butterflies. Ants fossilized in 100-million-year-old amber have sensory equipment that suggests they had complex social lives similar to their modern-day ...

Ants adjust their social interactions to accommodate changes in population density, according to researchers. The findings suggest that ant colonies are capable of maintaining their sophisticated ...

Ants do it. Lobsters do it. Even equatorial mandrills do it. Why don't many Americans do it: Wear masks and keep a wise social distance from each other? Scientific American reports this week how ...

Whether fire ants bow to one queen or accept many rulers depends on one long strand of genes, a new study finds. The gene sequence is the first "social chromosome" ever discovered, according to study ...

Ants react to social isolation in a similar way as do humans and other social mammals. A study has revealed alterations to the social and hygienic behavior of ants that had been isolated from their ...