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 perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) has been found to play a significant role in controlling behavior critical to how ant colonies function, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at ...

Professors from the University of Trento have studied ant behavior to understand how these insects navigate efficiently without stop-and-go disruptions, even in large groups, with findings recently ...

Different smell: Ozone destroys colony-specific scent signals by breaking down alkenes with carbon-carbon double bonds. Even ...

Invasive tawny crazy ants have been wreaking havoc across the U.S. Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas, disrupting ecosystems and causing headaches for homeowners. Now scientists at The University of ...

In many animals, including ants, the blood-brain barrier (BBB) ensures normal brain function by controlling the movement of various substances in and out of the brain. Now, researchers reporting in ...

The queens in colonies of social insects, such as ants, bees, and wasps, are considered the veritable embodiment of specialization in the animal kingdom. The common perception is that the queen's only ...