For better or for worse, high school is a formative time, as is beautifully and tragically illustrated in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Of course, some of the characters learned more hard-won life ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. From an ecological standpoint, most ants are great—they aerate ...

Ant colonies are pretty amazing things, complete with fascinating hierarchies, roles, and social structures that would put your typical high school to shame. You know what’s cooler than a regular ant ...

Scientists have developed a small robot to understand how ants teach one another. The team built the robot to mimic the behaviour of rock ants that use one-to-one tuition, in which an ant that has ...

Ordinarily, when we hear about robots or other devices that are able to independently navigate outdoors, it's a given that they use GPS. French scientists have developed an alternative, however, in ...

The six-legged AntBot is a walking robot that navigates by borrowing some tricks from desert ants. It can count its steps, track objects moving through its field of view, and read polarized patterns ...

A team of Swiss researchers with bugs on the brain has created an army of simple robotic "ants" capable of some impressive feats. The takeaway from these 10 gram bots, which are inexpensive to make ...

Aside from the stings and ruined picnics, fire ants are famous for their ability to swarm together and self­–assemble bridges, ladders, and even floating rafts. Researchers have now figured out the ...

French and British researchers are working on a new ant-inspired navigational system that could prove to be more accurate and reliable than current GPS devices. Since its launch during the 1970s by ...

Robots built to mimic ants suggest that real ants waste little, if any, mental energy deciding which way to go when they reach an uneven fork in the road, according to a new study. Instead, the ants ...

Marvel fans might have turned their all-seeing eye on “Avengers: Age of Ultron” but “Ant-Man” is ready to take over the spotlight. Plot details have been leaking out in an steady stream to acclimate ...