Biomimicry, a term originating from the word ... Computer scientists have exploited the ways of the ant to produce computational algorithms better able to solve complex problems.

Clint Penick thinks we could learn a lot from ants. Penick, an assistant research professor in the Biomimicry Center at Arizona State University, has been studying the capable creatures for 15 years.

It was a masterful stroke of conscious evolution, but hardly a new one. Leaf-cutter ants tapped into sustainable agriculture some 50 million years before us. These busy little beasts spend their ...

social frontier for biomimicry. Schematics of two ant nests show differences in what’s called meshedness, or the availability of connections that join chambers (orange squares) in a loop.

Ants have been around since the Cretaceous Period ... They can also help us boost our technology with biomimicry, from collective behavior that informs swarm robotics to neck joints that inspire ...

Ants have evolved extremely sophisticated behaviors ... By engaging in this form of biomimicry, the researchers have developed a similar algorithm, called SoSACO, that works by accelerating ...

What can the behaviour of ants, bees and rats teach us about the way humans navigate, organise and think? And what are the parallels between swarm intelligence and the 'wisdom of crowds'?