Articles for tag: AntColonies, Ants, Biomimicry, InsectWorld, NatureEngineering

a group of red ants crawling on a tree

How Ant Colonies Build Underground Cities That Rival Ours

Suhail Ahmed

Some cities hum with glass and steel; others pulse in damp darkness, sculpted grain by grain. Scientists are peering into those hidden realms and finding deliberate order where we once saw chaos. The mystery is simple to state and thrilling to solve: how do tiny insects, with no architect or blueprint, build sprawling networks that ...