For more than a decade, Evan Economo's lab has been using micro-CT machines to scan insect specimens. The resulting X-ray images help researchers study the form and structure of insects—a subfield of ...

The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.

Stanford researchers have combined two microscopy techniques to create a one-of-a-kind instrument that can show cell ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal.

Using a synchrotron powered CT scanner, the Antscan project created an open-source digital library cataloguing thousands of ...

MiSSOULA, Mont. — Organizers of the Red Ants Pants Music Festival have announced the lineup for the 15th annual event, set for July 23–26, 2026, in White Sulphur Springs. The event will feature Ricky ...

Researchers leveraged advanced technologies and artificial intelligence to hasten the process of generating 2,000 3D digital ant images. Now, a class of UMD computer science majors is working to bring ...

In the forests of California’s Sierra Nevada, nature takes a dark, cunning turn. There’s a species of red ant, Polyergus mexicanus, that doesn’t just fight its neighbours. It kidnaps not a few, but ...

Ants are an extremely common issue in most homes. These haunt kitchens and washrooms or drop a single food item anywhere and see them make their way to get it. So what do we do? Well we call pest ...

Fungus-farming ants have evolved a remarkable solution to the danger of excess carbon dioxide inside their nests – which could inspire ways for humans to capture CO2 ...

Engineers at Stanford University have developed a high-efficiency, battery/solar-operated, autonomous microscope with integrated artificial intelligence that automatically diagnoses malaria in blood ...

As the quiz show's title suggests, it has a potentially limitless prize fund and typically begins with relatively easy questions to allow players to bank that all-important cash. But unfortunately for ...