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 ...

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 ...

Common air pollutants like ozone and nitric oxide can change the way ants smell, prompting their nest-mates to attack them as if they were intruders. Ants recognise their comrades by scent, and when ...

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 ...

Robo-dogs are mapping the forest. Real dogs are confused. Link Copied! At Oxford Robotics Institute, quadruped “robot dogs” are mapping forests tree-by-tree — using lasers, cameras and AI to track ...

VenHub Global, a company that develops stores run by robots and AI, is set to begin trading Friday. It is taking the direct-listing route, a move its CEO says will let markets decide the company’s ...