Golfer Bryson DeChambeau, who has hit the headlines just lately for bulking up throughout quarantine and raging at a cameraman, has shocked followers once more by asking event officers for assist after his ball appeared to land on fireplace ants. ...

Ants use their numbers to beat navigational challenges which might be too giant and disorienting to be tackled by any single particular person, reviews a brand new examine.

Scientists report definitive proof of a mechanism inside ants that's chargeable for unlocking aggression. The analysis -- the primary to pinpoint this mechanism and its exact function in ant biology -- reviews a social attribute which might assist account for his or her evolutionary success.

Division of labor and political polarization could also be pushed by the identical processes, say computational biologists. They discovered that two forces -- ''social affect,'' the tendency of people to develop into much like these they work together with, and ''interplay bias,'' which leads us to work together with others ...

When a pathogen enters their colony, ants change their conduct to keep away from the outbreak of illness. On this manner, they shield the queen, brood and younger employees from turning into sick.

A particular virus adjustments dietary habits of fireside ants, main researchers to rethink management strategies for the invasive species.

The comparatively swift adaptability of tiny, acorn-dwelling ants to hotter environments may assist scientists predict how different species may evolve within the crucible of world local weather change, in accordance with biologists.

Not like Derek Zoolander, ants haven't any problem turning left. New analysis has now discovered rock ants usually have one eye barely higher than the opposite, which may assist clarify why most of them want to show left, given the selection.

Ecologists are checking to see if Hurricane Harvey's unprecedented floods gave a aggressive increase to fireside ants and loopy ants, two of southeast Texas' least favourite uninvited friends.

By analysing a prehistoric website within the Libyan desert, a staff of researchers has been in a position to set up that individuals in Saharan Africa had been cultivating and storing wild cereals 10,000 years in the past. Along with revelations about early agricultural practices, there might be a lesson ...