The first time Marcela Cosarinsky saw a nest of Atta vollenweideri leaf-cutter ants, it was the late 1990s and she was in an ...

Caffeine doesn’t just perk up humans—it can sharpen ants’ minds too. Invasive Argentine ants given caffeinated sugar learned ...

Quick Take Dracula ants have the fastest recorded animal appendage movement in recent scientific studies. A 23 microsecond ...

At first glance, the world of ants may seem far removed from our everyday lives. Yet, on closer inspection, they often face ...

In the clonal raider ant (Ooceraea biroi), workers in a colony alternate between caring for larvae and laying eggs in a ...

Over the past few decades, the Asian needle ants have spread to more than 20 states since their first appearance in Georgia ...

After witnessing the interactions in an Arizona desert, a Smithsonian researcher suggests that the little ants picked off ...

Witness the fascinating process of ant colony construction in this time-lapse video, "eLapse." Over 54 hours, watch as ants transform a simple sand-filled container into an intricate nest, digging ...

It’s the end of an era, as stars who have dominated the whole millennium lose out to new TV royalty like Claudia Winkleman. Plus: rare double nods for two of the UK’s best actors! Adolescence ...