Mutualism is a type of symbiotic relationship in which both parties gain some form of benefit from their interactions. Many ...

Ants are known for many things. They fight, bite and sometimes compete for every crumb. We can now possibly add cleaning ...

Desert ants can sense the North-South direction of the magnetic field to determine the direction of their nest entrance during so called learning walks. How exactly magnetoreception works in animals, ...

After witnessing the interactions in an Arizona desert, a Smithsonian researcher suggests that the little ants picked off ...

Learn more about a newly observed insect behavior in which smaller ants clean larger ants.

Polarization photodetectors (pol-PDs) have widespread applications in geological remote sensing, machine vision, and biological medicine. However, commercial pol-PDs usually require bulky and ...

ENT copy gift of the publisher. "How does a small-brained ant living in the Sahara desert know where it is when searching for prey in the vast expanse of sand and gravel? In Desert Navigator Rudiger ...