A queen ant and her nurses sport unique QR code labels as part of a study to observe how an ant colony defends itself against pathogens. European researchers observed thousands of tagged ants, ...

No creature embodies the idea that “it takes a village” quite like ants. Using chemical signals and other ephemeral communication methods like antennal codes, ants can work together to build or ...

Underground Kingdom is a massive strategy game where your ultimate goal is to build a formidable ant empire that stands ...

University of Oxford provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. All spiders are predators, but most of them are small and have rudimentary defences against larger animals that in turn prey ...

Be it through the Internet, Facebook, the local grapevine or the spread of disease, interaction networks influence nearly every part of our lives. Scientists previously assumed that interaction ...