The research focused on Lasius neglectus, a species of garden ant. Unlike adult workers, which can leave the nest to die when they are gravely ill, young pupae are immobile and remain sealed in ...

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch of Orbital Sciences Corp.’s commercial Cygnus spacecraft on Tuesday, Jan. 7 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, which will be ...

“This fossil reveals the mechanism behind what we might call an ‘evolutionary experiment.'" Even something as ubiquitous and familiar as ants have undergone extinction. The hell ant is thought to have ...

When an ant injures its leg, it sometimes will turn to a buddy who will help out by gnawing the leg off, effectively performing a lifesaving limb amputation. That's according to some new experiments ...

Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it's rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and ...

It’s the first known example of an insect with the ability to detoxify another insect’s venom. Crazy ants (on the right) coat themselves with formic acid to ...

Ants are smarter than many grade-school kids, at least when it comes to math, suggests a new study in the journal Behaviour. "Ants are smarter than a fifth-grader; they do math!" Els van Egmond of the ...

A University of Colorado Boulder research center will launch two payloads aboard Orbital Sciences Corp.'s commercial Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station on Dec. 18, including a ...