(CBS News) New research has found that ants and algorithms have more in common than you might think. A study from Stanford University showed that a species of harvester ant transmits information in ...

Ant algorithms A species of ant could lend important clues to solving problems in telephone networks, traffic circulation and computer networks. An international team of scientists, who have been ...

The biologist Deborah Gordon has uncovered how ant colonies search efficiently without central organization, an insight that might improve computer networks. Ants are capable of remarkable feats of ...

When it comes to groups that work together to get a job done, ants have pretty much got the process perfected. That’s why computer scientist Marco Dorigo studied the creatures’ behavior, and created ...

Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 98: Recent Developments in Practices and Research on Coastal Regions: Transportation, Environment and Economy (WINTER 2019), pp. 84-87 (4 pages) The ant ...

Observing ants in the trees of a tropical forest, researchers recorded how, without a plan, the ants make and maintain their networks -- and how they repair the network when it is ruptured. Imagine ...

New drugs often fail because they cause undesirable side effects. Researchers have now developed simulation software that predicts the properties of active agents and virtually builds new ones. The ...

When ants raid a family picnic to pick away at leftovers, it might look like pure chaos. But, that's really not the case. (Flickr / Dawn Camp) In fact, it's the opposite. And, new research suggests ...

Way, way back in pre-history, back when dinosaurs walked the Earth and we were mere gleams in the eyes of furry critters whose usual fate was to go crunch, harvester ants had worked out how many ...