A single queen in the tropics; large colonies in deserts; workers with uniform morphology in temperate regions; ant social ...

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Weaver ants work as a team to build bridges and create nests in trees. Nature has once again proven to be an efficient designer, showing time and again how ant teamwork is much better than that of ...

Fire ants form rafts to survive flooding, but how do those bonds work? And what can we learn from them? A professor is researching those questions to expand our knowledge of materials science. Fire ...