Ant colonies survive because individuals are willing to die. New research shows that some of the most vulnerable members, immobile pupae sealed in their cocoons, can sense when they are fatally ...

Learn how ants traded individual protection for collective power — and what it reveals about how complex societies evolve. Biology is full of tradeoffs, and one of the most familiar is whether success ...

This is a follow-up to a story that appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a fall morning in 1937, an Emory University geologist was walking down a hallway in the alumni ...