Sick ant pupae of Lasius neglectus can sense when they’ll die from infection and signal for help, triggering their own destruction to protect the colony—a selfless act studied at IST Austria and the ...

Abstract: This paper devises a multimodal ant colony optimization (MACO) framework to solve multi-solution traveling salesman problems (MSTSPs), which aim to find multiple optimal routes in a single ...

Move over, Game of Thrones—ants can turn armies against their leaders and use subterfuge to take over entire kingdoms, too. This chilling discovery did not originate with a professional scientist, but ...

The behavior prevents fungal pathogens from spreading through the colony Researchers call it "altruistic disease signaling" that protects the ant superorganism In a rare example of biological altruism ...

Scientists describe the behavior as "altruistic signalling," a form of social immunity in eusocial insects Getty A new research study finds infected ant pupae emit a chemical signal that prompts ...

Abstract: Recently, we have proposed ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm together with traveling salesman problem (TSP) approach to cluster proteins in protein interaction network (PIN). Our ...