This behavior mirrors how fire ants form living rafts to survive floods—an example of how engineers often draw inspiration from nature. On land, the swarms could transport cargo 350 times ...

Swarms of tiny robots guided by magnetic fields can coordinate to act like ants, from packing together to form a floating raft to lifting objects hundreds of times their weight. About the size of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Venomous fire ants swept up in floodwaters from Cyclone Alfred are forming teeming rafts and travelling downstream, sparking fears ...