It was the moment that Ant McPartlin and his ex-wife Lisa Armstrong had dreaded for some years. Being forced to stand together, face to face, eight years after their very public and acrimonious split ...

Abstract: Ant colony optimization algorithm often be used to path planning for mobile robots, but they have the following problems: 1. slow convergence speed, 2. hard to search real optima and easy to ...

Abstract: transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive and safe brain stimulation procedure with growing applications in clinical treatments and neuroscience research. However, achieving ...

Theodore T. Robo, 80, of High St., passed away on Monday, Feb. 9th, in St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, after a brief illness. He leaves his beloved wife of 51 years, Dianne M. (Robert) Robo; his ...

Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...

Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that makes them forever reliant on their hosts Sceptobius beetles groom ants to ...

After exposing an ant to the air pollutant ozone, its nestmates acted aggressively toward it. Henrik_L / iStock via Getty Images Air pollution is known to cause health problems in humans, such as ...

A single queen in the tropics; large colonies in deserts; workers with uniform morphology in temperate regions; ant social structures vary according to environmental conditions. This is shown, for the ...

What has opposable thumbs and is the most dexterous tool on the planet? The human hand, obviously. Well … not anymore. At least according to engineers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats affected by air pollution are attacked when they re-enter the colony. The ...