The swarm then wrapped itself around a pill weighing 2,000 times more than each individual robot, successfully transporting the payload across the liquid. This behavior mirrors how fire ants form ...

Scientists in South Korea have developed swarms of tiny magnetic robots that work together like ants to achieve Herculean feats, including traversing and picking up objects many times their size.

But then Cordyceps Collective went and mashed up Factorio with last year's colony simulation Empire of the Ants, and now I see I'm going to lose the second half of February to Microtopia.

In this figure set, students use a study by Wrege et al. (2005) to examine the relationship between the army ant Eciton burchellii and birds that follow foraging swarms. Army ant swarms are one of the ...

So what causes this simultaneous taking to the air, and is there really such a thing as flying ant day? Find out when and why ants grow wings and swarm. Flying ants are known as alates. In the UK, ...

Bridges will be the length of 10 to 20 ants -- only a few centimeters, but swarms form several bridges a day, which save collective energy and maximize foraging time.

Fire ants swarm from their nests to attack humans and animals, defending their nests with nasty stings.