Studying army ants for a living comes with certain occupational hazards. "They're very aggressive," says Isabella Muratore at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. "They have venom, so they will ...

There’s safety, even power, in numbers. One creature’s confrontation with the world seems insurmountable, almost impossible, but an army of those little creatures can move mountains. And no creature ...

Isabella Muratore at the New Jersey Institute of Technology says studying army ants comes with certain occupational hazards. ISABELLA MURATORE: They're very aggressive. They have venom, so they will ...

Army ants use their bodies to build bridges. Robots could soon take a cue from the tiny insect’s ability to collaborate. By Andrew Paul Published Nov 22, 2023 1:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

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As army ants travel over uneven terrain, they link their bodies together to create bridges — a system that might give engineers insight into... Army ants use collective intelligence to build bridges.