A few months ago, I awoke to find a streak spanning the length of my kitchen wall that looked like it had been drawn there ...

The classic thought experiment about a horse-sized duck and a hundred duck-sized horses is more than a joke. It captures a ...

Move over, Game of Thrones—ants can turn armies against their leaders and use subterfuge to take over entire kingdoms, too. This chilling discovery did not originate with a professional scientist, but ...

Some baby ants don’t ask for help when they contract deadly infections — they ask to be killed. Terminally ill worker ant pupae actively emit a “find me and destroy me” chemical signal, prompting ...

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to ...