THIS is an incredible timelapse showing a swarm of ants outsmarting humans by solving an unbelievable puzzle. The bizarre experiment was used to explore how both humans and ants navigate a complex ...

Scientists are increasingly studying how robot swarms can collectively achieve goals, drawing inspiration from ants that work together to bridge gaps or form rafts to survive floods. The ...

THIS is the moment the world's tiniest robots form a chilling hivemind swarm like ants - and they could be injected into humans. Researchers in South Korea have created creepy robots that can move ...

Scientists in South Korea have developed swarms of tiny magnetic robots that work together like ants to achieve Herculean feats, including traversing and picking up objects many times their size.

Find out when and why ants grow wings and swarm. Flying ants are known as alates. In the UK, particularly in urban areas, the winged insects you see are almost always the sexually mature queens and ...

Huge swarms of flying ants in the south of England have appeared on a weather forecast map looking like rain. Large numbers of what the Met Office described as "insect clutter" were recorded on ...

Small robots directed by magnetic fields can cooperatively lift heavy objects, form floating rafts and push through clogs. They may one day deliver drugs within the human body ...

Scientists at Hanyang University in Seoul have created tiny and cute ant-like robots that work together to move objects and do other stuff just like real insects do. Swarms of microbots carry out ...

New swarms of “ant-like” robots are able to lift heavy objects and hurl themselves over obstacles. The tiny magnetic automatons, developed by scientists in South Korea, work together like ...