Researchers at Georgia Tech study color-coded ants. This one's going to be yellow. Ants don't tend to get in traffic jams. They might butt heads (or antennae) momentarily as they go about their ...

TUCSON, July 4 (UPI) --Compartmentalized and regimented -- ant societies are a model of efficiency. But they're not perfect. Some ants are lazy. When scientists at the University of Arizona noticed a ...

To understand their strategies for working effectively without clogging traffic jams, researchers studied how fire ants dug tunnels in glass particles that simulated soil. Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia ...

They are known for being some of the most industrious creatures on the planet with each ant spending their lives working for the benefit of their colony. But it seems that, much like in human society, ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Anna Dornhaus, associate professor with the University of Arizona's ecology and evolutionary biology department, about its study on slacker ants. Ants - champion ...