Biologist and videographer Mark Moffett's footage of ants gets up close and personal with the leaf-cutter species of the ... Molts His Baby Feathers (01:06) National Treasure: The Mold Behind ...

Fungus-farming ants, fossilized footprints and a prehistoric critter named after a Muppet are just a few of the year’s most ...

Ofer Feinerman and his team at the Weizmann Institute of Science have used this ... geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024).

Another user wrote, "Did you know? In some cultures, ants were used to stitch wounds. Army or leaf-cutter ants would hold the skin together, putting their mouth to the wound and wait for them to ...

In some cultures, ants were used to stitch wounds. Army or leaf-cutter ants would hold the skin together, putting their mouth to the wound and wait for them to bite down. The body would be removed, ...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science The team of Prof. Ofer Feinerman designed an experiment to compare the performance of ants and humans in transporting a T-shaped load through a maze. This study, ...

Humans, on the contrary, failed to significantly improve their performance when acting in groups, said researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. "While ants perform more efficiently ...

The small size of ants has nothing to do with their stature ... A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on December 23 offered to add one more feather to their caps.

January 6, 2025 • In order to better understand her circadian rhythm, science journalist Lynne Peeples conducted an experiment in which lived for 10 days in a bunker, with no exposure to ...