new video loaded: How Ants Get a Taste for the Trail transcript This is a carpenter ant sniffing. That’s how they follow the chemical trails that are laid by fellow ants — or research ...

By analyzing a 30-centimeter ant trail—100 times the body length of each ant—and using deep learning algorithms to track movements in video footage, the researchers mapped the ants ...

It's a common sight—ants marching in an orderly line over and around obstacles from their nest to a food source, guided by scent trails left by scouts marking the find. But what happens when ...

The researchers placed ants on artificial trails laced with pheromones in the lab. When the angle of the forks was increased from 60 degrees to 120 degrees, ...