Researchers leveraged advanced technologies and artificial intelligence to hasten the process of generating 2,000 3D digital ...

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

Researchers have developed a high-tech system that rapidly scans ants and converts them into detailed 3D models. Using a synchrotron accelerator, X-ray imaging, robotics, and AI, the team scanned ...

Saharan silver ants (Cataglyphis bombycina) are known to forage under extreme temperature conditions in the African desert. The ants do so while remaining relatively cool. This is due to the hairs ...

A new high-tech scanning system is rapidly turning thousands of ants into stunning 3D models—building a digital library of ...

A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic queens that try to take over other colonies.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 113 million-year-old fossil of a hell ant preserves tiny details of the insect's wings. - Anderson Lepeco An almost overlooked ...

In the hidden chambers of Japanese forests, a quiet rebellion has been unfolding for decades. Scientists have now confirmed ...

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Everything in the ant hill seems to need the liquid secretions from members of the colony that are in their pupal stage. By Joshua Sokol Orli Snir, a biologist at the Rockefeller University in New ...

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 ...