This photograph shows a nest of a harvester ant in India. The area where this nest is found in the Western Ghats experiences 3 to 11 meters (9 to 36 feet) of rain during a monsoon season that lasts three to four months. Rainfall like that could be devastating for the...
How is an ant colony like a computer? No, that’s not a riddle – it’s science! Two researchers at Stanford have demonstrated that the algorithms that computers use to transfer data and avoid congestion on the Internet actually mimics the behavior of...
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