New York, NY--June 15, 2015--Nanfang Yu, assistant professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, and colleagues from the University of Zürich and the University of Washington, have discovered ...

Imagine yourself a tourist in an East African park, binoculars raised to watch lions, elephants, buffalo, antelopes -- the iconic large mammals of the savanna. Suddenly one of the continent's greatest ...

Researchers have discovered two strategies that enable Saharan silver ants to stay cool in one of the world's hottest environments. They are the first to demonstrate that the ants use a coat of ...

While experts search for ways to cope with excessive atmospheric carbon, the world's ants may have had a solution all along. A new paper reports that ants radically accelerate the breakdown of some ...

Silver ant optical macro with two panels. Left: Saharan silver ants forage in the midday sun and look like droplets of mercury rolling on the desert surface. Right: The silvery appearance is created ...

Cool operator: the Saharan silver ant Cataglyphis bombycina. (Courtesy: P Landmann) A species of desert-dwelling ant is able to tolerate temperatures exceeding 50 °C because its body hairs act like ...

You think ants’ ability to carry 5,000 times their body weight is impressive? Just wait. From engineering to self-cooling, our six-legged friends have some enviable skills. They can build towers—out ...

The nests of Florida ants called Formica archboldi are adorned with the carcasses of their enemies — namely, the heads of other species known as trap-jaw ants. How Formica archboldi acquire these ...