In a study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, a team of French researchers at the University of Sorbonne Paris North demonstrated that ants have the ...

The red fire ant, native to South America and notorious both for its venom, aggression, and ability to exact agricultural damage had arrived, raising alarms. Fighting its invasion was, scientists ...

Ants don’t have a nose, but that doesn’t stop them from sniffing out cancer. Thanks to an abundance of olfactory receptors on their antennae, the insects have an incredible sense of smell ...

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Jan. 25, 2023 -- New research points to the possibility that ants will someday help diagnose cancer in human beings. The insects have a highly refined sense of smell they use in all aspects of ...

“There’s these perfectly cleaned pathways that the ants make and maintain, and they carry bright-green leaves,” Chalmers told me recently. “And so you saw this ribbon, almost like a drawin ...

In a recent study, researchers at North Carolina State University discovered that ants did not modify their behaviour in ...

Ants have an excellent sense of smell. And cancerous tumors in animals, including humans, produce chemical compounds that can make their way into urine samples. Some research has demonstrated that ...

Ants can be trained to detect cancer in urine, a new study finds. Although ant sniffing is a long way from being used as a diagnostic tool in humans, the results are encouraging, the researchers ...

Ants can detect the scent of cancer in urine, scientists have found. Several types of cancer have been found to alter urine smell but experts have, for the first time, found ants to have this ...

Ant waves. (A) Real-space images of the wave highlighted in Fig. 1C. Each image was taken 20 s apart. Scale bar, 5 cm. (B) 3D view of the wave highlighted in Fig. 1C, where the density has been ...

The pair dressed up for their precious date night, with Ant in a gray suit he wore with classic white Converse sneakers, and Renée in a black dress. She paired her LBD with silver pointed-toe ...