Scientists have long been fascinated by collective intelligence, the idea that groups can solve problems better than ...

Having numbered exactly zero in the U.S. before the 20th century, billions of Argentine ants now occupy large swathes of American land, with the largest supercolony extending over 500 miles from ...

The piano-mover puzzle involves trying to transport an oddly shaped load across a constricted environment with various ...

Each summer, there comes a moment when we suddenly notice that the ground is crawling with large winged ants. Then the air seems to be full of them and we find ourselves ducking and diving, trying not ...

Ants and humans are also the only creatures in nature that consistently cooperate while transporting large loads that greatly exceed their own dimensions. Prof. Ofer Feinerman and his team at the ...

A Weizmann Institute experiment found that cooperation proved more effective for ants than for humans. Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that they are highly social creatures; it’s ...

Making Challenge A Weizmann Institute study led by Prof. Ofer Feinerman pitted ants and humans against each other in a maze navigation experiment designed to test group cooperation. While humans ...

Two sets of mazes were created, differing only in size, to match the dimensions of ants and humans. The ants tackled the maze ...