For the past three decades Deborah Gordon has devoted herself to studying ant colonies in the Arizona desert. Although her chosen subject – the red harvester ant – isn’t much to look at, when they ...

Self-report questionnaires must be psychometrically sound, but also brief and efficient to avoid participant nonresponse and fatigue, especially in the health and prevention sciences. Meta-heuristics ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). Ants are capable of remarkable feats of coordination. They can forge complex paths through the jungle, build sophisticated structures, and adapt ...

The biologist Deborah Gordon has uncovered how ant colonies search efficiently without central organization, an insight that might improve computer networks. Ants are capable of remarkable feats of ...

An ant biologist and a computer scientist has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants as they forage for food mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet. On the surface, ants and ...

(CBS News) New research has found that ants and algorithms have more in common than you might think. A study from Stanford University showed that a species of harvester ant transmits information in ...

Gordon's work, published online Sept. 29 by the American Naturalist, has led to the development of a simple algorithm that explains how ants create, repair and prune a network within a complex maze of ...

Combining ideas inspired by ant colonies and flocks of birds may hold the key to unlocking more effective artificial ...

New drugs often fail because they cause undesirable side effects. ETH researchers have developed simulation software that predicts the properties of active agents and virtually builds new ones. The ...