Desert ants navigate vast, featureless landscapes with uncanny precision. These tiny creatures possess a unique ability to perceive the polarization of sunlight, allowing them to find their way ...

Ants learn from experience. This has been demonstrated by a team of evolutionary biologists from the University of Freiburg, led by Dr Volker Nehring, research associate in the Evolutionary ...

A new research paper by an international team of biologists reveals that ants apparently don’t have the same problem, and not only do they know if one of their newly born colony members is ...