Biology
Scientists discover how desert ants navigate
An international research team led by Dr. Pauline Fleischmann from the University of Oldenburg (Germany) has just discovered that the desert ant species Cataglyphis nodu…
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Inventing a new type of robot that can move without GPS
Inspired by desert ants, scientists at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and University of Aix-Marseille have invented a new generation of robots…
Biology
The most exotic ant species in the desert: Knowing trigonometry but forget the way back if you see food
Most animals remember the smell of its nest to not
Biology
Desert ants smell the way back to the nest
When lost in the desert, people often hang around in a deadlock circle. This prompted scientists to ask how the desert living organisms could find their way without a ma…