How AI and new sensing tools are reshaping collective animal behavior research

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

Ants are thriving in an LA wildfire burn zone. Here’s why it matters

Native ants in the forests around the recent Eaton fire had survived the heat, flames and smoke, an evolutionary survival ...

Watch a robot swarm “bloom” like a garden

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to ...
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‘Over the next hour, it’s dispatched, dismantled and butchered, piece by piece.’ This may be the most savage ambush attack we’ve ever heard

In a horrific but easy-to-visualise scene, the ants grab its limbs and pull backwards, while the insect struggles in the opposite direction, where more hidden jaws are waiting to grab it. The ants ...