2025 has come and gone. It was an interesting year and had its fair share of weird Vancouver stories. We’ve gone through some ...

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

Species with thinner protective barriers may need fewer resources and tend to have a greater ability to adapt to new habitats ...

Has a crucial component to the development of human medicine been hiding under our feet? Auburn University Assistant ...

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? As silly as it sounds, the question captures a real ...

A new study shows how ants grow huge colonies by choosing numbers over strength and relying on teamwork instead of tough ...

Here’s a fun (and creepy) fact: The Earth is home to approximately 20 quadrillion ants. To put zeroes on it, that’s around 20,000,000,000,000,000 of the six-legged insects living all around us. How ...

It grows quickly and depends on adult worker ants to feed it. These workers decide how much and what kind of food the larva ...

When worker ants inspect the pupae and encounter the scent, they get busy unpacking the cocoon and creating small openings in the pupae's body by biting it. Next, they disinfect the pupae with formic ...

Argentine ants compete with bumble bees for prized nectar sources. But the bees are fighting back. Find out how.

Backyard ants use ancient, targeted antimicrobial strategies that could inspire new ways to fight drug-resistant superbugs in humans.