This is a 12-acre cornfield, so it is much easier to create the maze pathways when the corn is in an early growth stage," says Jerry Graham, senior project manager of LJA Engineering & Surveying.

Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it's rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and ...

An analysis of how ants quickly find new routes in a changing maze reveals techniques that could be useful to systems engineers. The research, reported in the Journal of Experimental Biology, shows ...