Recent studies dubbed "ants vs. worms" in the media may point to a new way of looking at the problem of protecting and programming for large systems. (This ant swarm is from a Web site called Daily ...

Humans and insects think on a different scale, but entomologists study the behavior of these little organisms, so they’re not a complete mystery. There isn’t much intelligence in a single ant or a ...

Gary Thompson’s experience with fire ants sounds like something out of a low-budget horror flick. As the Rancho Santa Margarita councilman was watering his front lawn one afternoon five years ago, he ...