How a particle accelerator, a robot, high-speed cameras, and 2,000 ants came together to paint a picture of biological ...

An estimated 20 quadrillion ants belonging to more than 15,000 known species currently crawl across the Earth. Those huge ...

Quick Take Scientists used a powerful synchrotron X-ray system, robotics, and AI to scan 2,000 ant specimens in just one week ...

The “Antscan” web platform is the world’s largest digital database of 3D insect data. It is the result of an international and interdisciplinary cooperation initiated by Karlsruhe Institute of ...

Did you know that scientists have made an exciting discovery about an ant species native to southern Europe? They recently discovered that Iberian harvester ant queens are able to produce offspring of ...

National Harbor, Md. — Looking at face patterns in photos of more than 11,000 kinds of ants struck entomologist Clint Penick as a fine pandemic-lockdown project for his students. From that socially ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The hell ant existed over 100 million years ago, ...

Army ants use their bodies to build bridges. Robots could soon take a cue from the tiny insect’s ability to collaborate. By Andrew Paul Published Nov 22, 2023 1:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

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Ant experiments in the lab. Ant pupae are collected in a dish, and individually infected on glass plates by gently rolling them through a spore suspension using soft forceps. Infected pupae emit ...