This clip is from the series Life on Planet Ant. Students could role-play how an ant colony adapts to outside forces. One student could be selected as the ‘queen’ and two others as worker ants.

In 2002, researchers from the University of Tokyo discovered the largest ant colony ever recorded. They found a super-colony of yellow crazy ants, estimated to contain over 1 million queens and an ...

But then Cordyceps Collective went and mashed up Factorio with last year's colony simulation Empire of the Ants, and now I see I'm going to lose the second half of February to Microtopia.

Download Empire of the Ants Free. You can now explore a miniature world in Empire of the Ants, a third-person real-time ...

somebody's finally made a video game version of Hex, the sentient glass hive from Terry Pratchett's Unseen University. In spooky automation-driven strategy sim Microtopia, you manage a swarm of what ...

A (still growing) paper list of Evolutionary Computation (EC) published in some (rather all) top-tier (and also EC-focused) journals and conferences. For EC-focused publications, only ...

Ant guests will exploit the food resources in the ant colony, but at a great risk to themselves. Ants are known to kill intruders when they are detected to protect the colony. To avoid attacks ...

Would the ants make a distinction between individuals, or do they generally attack anyone who is “foreign” and does not belong to their own colony? The researchers conducted the experiment in ...

Carpenter ants undergo complete development (egg, larva, pupa, adult). The pupae are enclosed in cocoons and are often misnamed "ant eggs." A colony includes one queen and several thousands of workers ...

The sports management game will be free to claim between February 13 and 20. In the meantime, EGS users who haven't claimed Beyond Blue back when it was first free in April 2023 now have another ...

Things started off normally, with Brown buzzing in to correctly guess “Ant Colony ... “Artist Colony” for $2,000 of her own. It was the final puzzle that threw the game into chaos.