One summer day, 8-year-old Hugo Deans spotted a cluster of tiny, BB-sized spheres (galls) near an ant nest in his backyard.

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Army ants use their bodies to build bridges. Robots could soon take a cue from the tiny insect’s ability to collaborate. By Andrew Paul Published Nov 22, 2023 1:00 PM EST Add Popular Science (opens in ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The hell ant existed over 100 million years ago, ...

At the right concentration, the carbon-rich soil booster makes ants forage 2x as fast, build threefold more complex nests, ...