In a recent conversation with Peter Gloor at MIT, we talk about swarm creativity, COINs, AI and a collective human-AI future.

Symbiotic relationships between species are both common and incredible, including those between ants and these four insects, ...

An ant carries an unfortunate honeybee it scavenged back to the colony to feed a growing brood. The worker’s strength is sizable—enough to transport many times its body weight using its mandibles.

A (still growing) paper list of Evolutionary Computation (EC) published in some (rather all) top-tier (and also EC-focused) journals and conferences. For EC-focused publications, only ...

Ants seldom feed directly on plants, but they can sometimes damage plants in other ways. When ant colonies build their nests under plants it disturbs the roots and deprives the plants of water. They ...

Ants — yes, ants — could protect apples, nuts, cocoa, and other beloved crops from disease and climate change.

A Weaver Colony resident named Iftikhar has been apprehended by Pakistan's Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) for impersonating a terrorist group member to extort money from a local individual, ...

Living with the enemy The jumping spider Phintella piatensis hangs out with Asian weaver ants ... By building specialized nests near the ants' colonies (thickly woven, cocoon-like structures ...

In 2002, researchers from the University of Tokyo discovered the largest ant colony ever recorded. They found a super-colony of yellow crazy ants, estimated to contain over 1 million queens and an ...

Renée Zellweger will go anywhere for love. The two-time Oscar winner offered a rare glimpse into her relationship with Ant Anstead, sharing that she planted roots outside of Hollywood to stay ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...