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Experience the remarkable technique behind creating a wooden giraffe sculpture as an artist carefully shapes the wood with precision and creativity. Watch the transformation from a simple block of ...

Adams’s paintings present visions of Black Americana through figures engaged in everyday leisure and enlivened by individual ...

It is set within a muted olive-colored mat and encased by a thin, dark brown wood frame. In this dreamlike scene ... Near the painting’s lower left corner rests a copper-colored pocket watch. A ...

Curator James Payne’s Great Art Explained channel is one of YouTube’s gems. For his latest video, he takes a look at Leonardo da Vinci’s mural The Last Supper and explains what makes it such an ...

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 ...

Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients for a juicy controversy. This may be why eye-rolling and schadenfreude emerge so virulently whenever said ...

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.

BRASILIA, Brazil – A new study has revealed the complex makeup of an ant found in South America that can absorb nearly all visible light. Researchers analyzed the velvet ant’s exoskeleton and ...