Ants coordinate highly complex foraging and traffic systems without any leaders, relying entirely on local interactions and chemical cues. Pheromone trails encode information about distance, food ...

For some would-be ant queens, the easiest way to take over a colony is to dupe its worker ants into committing regicide. The scientist E.O. Wilson once wrote that ants are the most warlike of all ...

Pheromone trails encode information about distance, food quality, and danger, allowing colonies to adapt and optimize paths in real time. Ant-inspired strategies, like ant colony optimization, inform ...