From ants moving indoors to ants appearing in your potted plants because they hitched a ride from the plant nursery, there are several reasons why ants might be now calling your potted plants home. We ...

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Cognitive control is the process by which goals or plans influence behaviour. Also called executive control, this process can inhibit automatic responses and influence working memory. Cognitive ...

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Ants and humans competed in navigating a maze with a large load. While humans outperformed individually, ant groups excelled collectively, showing strategic coordination and persistence. The study ...

Ant & Dec's Limitless Win is back and this time, the hosting duo are given the chance to help out in the gameplay, but it's not always as easygoing as it may seem. In tonight's episode, the hosts ...

Participants were tasked with moving a large T-shaped object The researchers designed two sets of mazes to accommodate both ants and humans The ants used were Paratrechina longicornis, commonly known ...

What threats could China pose to the U.S. if it were able to exert strategic control over the canal?