Quick Take Scientists used a powerful synchrotron X-ray system, robotics, and AI to scan 2,000 ant specimens in just one week ...

If you’ve been stung by an ant, you know how painful it can be. Australian researchers have found that some of the most painful ant stings are caused by nerve-targeting neurotoxins. But, unlike those ...

Ant colony nests are known for their impenetrability. These highly organized insect societies will soon detect an intruder’s ...

A species of ant previously unknown to science has been discovered in the Hajar Mountains – and it has been named in honour of Sharjah. While finding new species is not necessarily unusual, the name ...

Museum collection of pinned ants from Fiji. This study involved extensive genome sampling from thousands of Fijian ant specimens, highlighting the vital importance of these museum collections as ...

BASKETBALL AND PICKLEBALL COURTS. AND AS SUMMERTIME APPROACHES, EXPERTS ARE WARNING PEOPLE TO PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR A LESSER KNOWN BUT POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS INSECT. THE ASIAN NEEDLE ANT IS CAUSING ...

Scientists have designed a new technique using robotics to rapidly generate high-resolution, three-dimensional images of ants. Antscan is the world’s first digitized library of nearly 800 ant species ...

The ant species Leptothorax acervorum is found throughout the Northern hemisphere. While many populations have multiple queens, a few have only one queen that reproduces. And in those societies, ...