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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Human patients would be less homogenous, which could influence their body odors and make it harder for ants to sniff out cancer. “The diet, sex and age of a patient can impact the odor of the ...

Take part in the exodus of a doomed and lost colony Play as the Ant Savior, whose mission is to lead its “people” and rebuild a home, protect them, make them prosper and conquer new ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

A new study finds that ants are not adjusting their behavior in response to warming temperatures, persisting in sub-optimal ...

"Warmer times and places make warmer ants, and they're not adjusting their activity to match their preferred conditions," says Elsa Youngsteadt, a professor of applied ecology at NC State and co ...