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Or are we? In a surprising new study, researchers compared the cooperative abilities of ants and humans using a geometric challenge known as the “piano-movers”. This task involved navigating a ...

While one would be hard-pressed to find virtually any similarities between ants and humans, the two species seem to share an unusual ability despite their seemingly unbridgeable differences—they ...

A team studying the group behavior of ants has found that, in the right circumstances, ants can outsmart humans in collective problem-solving tasks. Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of ...

South Korean scientists have developed swarms of microrobots that mimic ants’ collaborative behavior to accomplish tasks like transporting objects and guiding organisms. Credit: Device/Yang and Won et ...

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.

South Korean researchers have created tiny magnetic robots that collaborate like ants, accomplishing impressive tasks such as moving and lifting objects far larger than themselves. The team at ...