Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it's rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and ...

A Weizmann Institute of Science team has found that ants have better group smarts than people when maneuvering a large load through a maze. Prof. Ofer Feinerman, who led the research team, said the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While one would be hard-pressed to find virtually any similarities between ants and humans, the two species seem to share an ...

The piano-mover puzzle involves trying to transport an oddly shaped load across a constricted environment with various obstructions. It’s one of several variations on classic computational ...

The ants demonstrated performances that were not only vastly better than those of solitary ants but even better in some cases than those of humans. A recent study published in the scientific journal ...

Ants use their numbers to overcome navigational challenges that are too large and disorienting to be tackled by any single individual, reports a new study in the open-access journal eLife. The results ...