Not literally, of course. But similarly to an ant colony, two scientists say our collective culture—not genetics—has become the driving force of our evolution.

Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The ...

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Queen Iberian harvester ants are capable of storing and cloning the sperm from a cousin species, spawning hybrid offspring to take on the hard work of keeping the colony intact. reading time 3 minutes ...

Scientists discover that a queen ants of the Messor genus produce males from another species to breed hybrid workers in ...

When an outbreak of an infectious disease begins to spread, policymakers face an unenviable challenge. They must decide when to intervene and how forcefully, knowing that their choices carry both ...

Iberian harvester ant queens have a unique superpower: They can lay eggs that hatch into an entirely different species. This discovery, described in a new paper published September 3 in the journal ...

Ant Group unveiled its first humanoid robot at a trade show in Shanghai on Thursday, heralding the Chinese fintech company’s entry into the increasingly competitive field of embodied artificial ...

Shanghai Yunya Enterprise Management Consulting, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ant Group, recently snapped up a 1.87 per cent shareholding in InnoStar for an undisclosed amount, according to registry ...

(CNN) — Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The queens can produce eggs that develop into two different ant species.

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Ant Group, the Alibaba-linked fintech giant, just took a big step outside of payments and finance. On Thursday in Shanghai, the company rolled out its first ...

A fungus-farming ant colony is a complex society with division of labor among many size classes. In this close-up, tiny nurse ants tending to white ant larvae are dwarfed by the queen ant in the upper ...