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Ants More Rational Than Humans?
Science & Tech (tags: science, research, study, ants, humans, rationality, irrational, decision making, interesting )

Dee
- 123 days ago - sciencedaily.com

ScienceDaily (July 25, 2009) -- In a study released online on July 22 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, researchers at Arizona State University and Princeton University show that ants can accomplish a task more---

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Super-Colony of Ants Rivals Human Society as Population Stretches Around the Globe
Science & Tech (tags: sceintists, study, ants, global populations, humans, super colonyworld )

Simone
- 146 days ago - dailymail.co.uk

Argentine ants from three huge colonies in Europe, America and Japan are actually part of one global super-colony, scientists have revealed. The aggressive insects were first native to South America but humans have since spread them to the four corners

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How Cheating Ants Give Themselves Away
Science & Tech (tags: science, research, ants )

Michael
- 317 days ago - sciencedaily.com

In ant society, workers normally give up reproducing themselves to care for their queen's offspring, who are their brothers and sisters. When workers try to cheat and have their own kids in the queen's presence, their peers swiftly attack and physically r

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Darwin Was Right About How Evolution Can Affect Whole Group
Science & Tech (tags: biology, ants, discovery, social harmony, investigation )

Ingrid
- 370 days ago - sciencedaily.com

Worker ants of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your fertility. The highly specialized worker castes in ants represent the pinnacle of social organization in the insect world.

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Fire Ants Creat Lifeboat To Survive Flooding
Science & Tech (tags: ants, amazon )

One
- 380 days ago - humanelement.blogspot.com

If I didn't see this with my own eyes I wouldn't believe it! Watch as these Fire ants in the Amazon rain forest form a lifeboat of sorts made of ants. They are so light that the surface tension of the ants alone keeps them floating.

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Strange 'Ant From Mars' Discovered
Science & Tech (tags: discovery, ants, amazon rainforest )

Ingrid
- 435 days ago - livescience.com

A newly discovered species of a blind, subterranean predator -- dubbed the "Ant from Mars" -- is likely a descendant of one of the very first ants to evolve on Earth, a new study finds.

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Ants Are Fungus Farmers
Science & Tech (tags: science, research, study, animals, Entomology, ants, evolution, agricuture, DNA, computer algorithms, concept, discovery, future, technology )

J.
- 605 days ago - mnh.si.edu

By studying the agricultural evolution of leaf-cutter ants, as well as various other species, scientists may be able to develop improved human agricultural and medical methods.

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When Ants Gather, They Use One Brain
Science & Tech (tags: science, scientists, discovery, collective brains, ants )

Simone
- 734 days ago - tahoebonanza.com

Science is discovering that animals that swarm develop a collective brain that enables them to think as a single organism. Wow! If birds and fish and ants can get smarter by swarming together, why can't we? When humans swarm we seem to develop a xenophob

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