The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Drop a clump of 100,000 fire ants in a pond of water – or flood a huge ...

Shaped like a large figure 8 with a horizontal antenna bar, the ClearStream MAX-V may not suit the decor of many living rooms. It can't be concealed like a flat indoor-only antenna or tucked ...

Figure 1: The ant's odometer does not record the distance actually travelled along an uphill–downhill path but rather the horizontal projection of that path (that is, the ground distance).

But what about that jump punch? Check out Ant-Man's horizontal motion during this punch. He goes from a horizontal speed of 0.19 m/s to 2.1 m/s. That's a crazy fast punch. It's a cool scene ...

The graphic below shows the horizontal profiles of five different colonies. Eminent ant expert E.O. Wilson once wrote: "Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans." ...

Tobias Seidl from the University of Zurich has found that ants are able to learn how to visually judge the height of horizontal barriers so that they can successfully crawl under it without ...

Weaver ants are a mean bunch. They’re not very big, but they’re highly aggressive and extremely territorial. Their main weapons are a pair of ferocious jaws; after they bite they also like to ...

Alyssa Trofort/Under Armour He was known as “Ant-Man” around Atlanta before he even hit puberty. Edwards’ father gave him the nickname when Edwards was 3 years old — far pre-dating the ...

“Oftentimes the squeezable gel formulations are more versatile in that you can put out lots of small dabs of bait wherever ants are trailing (along cracks, edges, both horizontal and vertical ...

Scientists at the University of Zurich have discovered that ants are able to learn how to visually judge the height of horizontal barriers so that they can successfully crawl under it without ...