Humans are not the only animals to have a dedicated health care system. Some super-organized ant species not only recognize that their comrade is injured but actually carry them back to the ant nest ...

This repository implements several swarm optimization algorithms and visualizes them. Implemented algorithms: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Firefly Algorithm (FA), Cuckoo Search (CS), Ant Colony ...

Ant pupae that are fatally sick don’t hide their condition; instead, they release a special scent that warns the rest of the colony. This signal prompts worker ants to open the pupae’s cocoons and ...

Imagine a tiny ant, not yet fully grown, lying helpless inside its cocoon. It is vulnerable, immobile, and facing a deadly fungal infection. in most animal societies, a sick member might try to hide ...

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The chemical alerts appear to be situational and depend on proximity to adult worker ants. While a single ant is a comparatively ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an independent, nonprofit news ...

Ants are many things. They're hard workers and intensely social. They're quite strong for their size. And now they may also be a source of architectural inspiration too — for designing spaces that ...

Stories of camel spiders and their aggressive nature have been told for generations. Tales of these critters running at high speeds and taking down camels have made the species notorious across the ...