A swarm of ants attacked a small telescope in Australia earlier this year, and when they died, their tiny corpses blew out the power supply. The Australian Beta Pictoris b Ring instrument (bRing-AU) ...

A beach in France is the latest stronghold to have been invaded by millions of tiny insects, wrecking the local ecosystem. Ants have colonized the dunes of a beach in the town of Mauguio-Carnon, on ...

Crazy ants aren't fun-loving insects who like to party and hang out. They get their common name because they do not walk in a straight line like normal ants, and instead crawl rapidly and erratically.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Ever since a forward-thinking trio of physicists identified the phenomenon known as self-organized criticality---a mechanism by which complexity arises in nature---scientists have ...

Deep within a termite mound in Africa, soldier termites spring into action, slicing their smaller opponents in half with a snap of their powerful jaws. But the attacking driver ants use strategy to ...