You might think of ants as being everywhere all the time, but it turns out they live in nine distinct areas of the planet. For the first time, researchers have mapped the "biogeographic realms ...

Making Challenge A Weizmann Institute study led by Prof. Ofer Feinerman pitted ants and humans against each other in a maze navigation experiment designed to test group cooperation. While humans ...

A Weizmann Institute experiment found that cooperation proved more effective for ants than for humans. Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that they are highly social creatures; it’s ...

I write about the world of biology. The Argentine ant is one of the most invasive species of ants, with its sprawling supercolonies ... [+] locked in an endless battle for territorial supremacy.

This map shows the division of ants' global territory into nine large biogeographic realms. "Interestingly, when I was ...