Last week, while the world’s attention was fixed on the outcome of the hard-fought U.S. election, a very different kind of battle was unfolding across the Pacific, one with the potential to upend how ...

For over a hundred years scientists have been putting ants under the microscope — but the ants still managed to keep some secrets. Now researchers have spotted something no-one had noticed before — a ...

Researchers have made transgenic ants whose antennae glow green under a microscope, revealing how the insects’ brains process alarming smells. The findings identify three unique brain regions that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The picture of the ant’s face, magnified five times under a microscope, bears little resmeblence to what most humans might think ...