The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

This familial structure appears to enhance the ants’ collective problem-solving abilities. Their findings validated this “super-organism” vision, demonstrating that ants acting as a group ...

In the fight against drug-resistant bacteria, researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton are enlisting an unexpected army: ants, bees and beetles. These tiny creatures could hold the key to ...