As army ants travel over uneven terrain, they link their bodies together to create bridges — a system that might give engineers insight into... Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges.

Roboticists at The Faboratory at Yale University have developed a way for soft robots to replicate some of the more unsettling things that animals and insects can accomplish — say, a reptile ...

Growing up in Turkey, synthetic biologist Gizem Gumuskaya was enamored with architecture and how buildings emerged from the bustling chaos of the city. She found that designed environments mirrored ...

No creature embodies the idea that “it takes a village” quite like ants. Using chemical signals and other ephemeral communication methods like antennal codes, ants can work together to build or ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, plexiglass barriers gleamed between tables, sidewalks turned into cafés, and circles on the ...

This army is in formation. Thousands of fire ants have been spotted floating on floodwaters through the Texas city and forming rafts using their bodies with residents now reporting the gross behavior.