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  • Social Insect Distancing – Ep. 10: Nocturnal Ants in Kansas

    In response to the ongoing pandemic, we are producing a short, no-frills daily podcast series: “Social Insect Distancing”. We hope that learning a little about ants will provide cross-species comfort for anxious human readers!

  • Social Insect Distancing – Ep. 9: Photonic Structure Biomimicry

    In response to the ongoing pandemic, we are producing a short, no-frills daily podcast series: “Social Insect Distancing”. We hope that learning a little about ants will provide cross-species comfort for anxious human readers!

  • Social Insect Distancing – Ep. 8: Silk Weaving

    In response to the ongoing pandemic, we are producing a short, no-frills daily podcast series: “Social Insect Distancing”. We hope that learning a little about ants will provide cross-species comfort for anxious human readers! UPDATE: A reader sent us the below gif, documenting this behavior!

  • Social Insect Distancing – Ep. 7: Favorite Ants

    In response to the ongoing pandemic, we are producing a short, no-frills daily podcast series: “Social Insect Distancing”. For our 7th episode, we chatted with guest Jordan A. Greer, a Science Communication intern at Cell Press. We hope that learning a little about ants will provide cross-species comfort for anxious human readers! See here for…

  • Social Insect Distancing – Ep. 6: Antomology

    In response to the ongoing pandemic, we are producing a short, no-frills daily podcast series: “Social Insect Distancing”. We hope that learning a little about ants will provide cross-species comfort for anxious human readers!

  • Social Insect Distancing – Ep. 5: Butt Foam

    In response to the ongoing pandemic, we are producing a short, no-frills daily podcast series: “Social Insect Distancing”. We hope that learning a little about ants will provide cross-species comfort for anxious human readers!  

  • Social Insect Distancing – Ep. 4: The Ant Nebula

    In response to the ongoing pandemic, we are producing a short, no-frills daily podcast series: “Social Insect Distancing”. For today’s episode, we chatted with guest Dr. Andrew Burkhardt, a Submillimeter Array Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard and the Smithsonian. We hope that learning a little about ants will provide cross-species comfort…

  • Social Insect Distancing – Ep. 3: Nomadic Mushroom Harvesters

    In response to the ongoing pandemic, we will be producing a short, no-frills daily podcast series: “Social Insect Distancing”. We hope that learning a little about ants will provide cross-species comfort for anxious human readers!

  • Social Insect Distancing – Ep. 2: Turtle Ants

    In response to the ongoing pandemic, we will be producing a short, mostly unscripted, no-frills daily podcast series: “Social Insect Distancing”. We hope that learning a little about ants will provide cross-species comfort for anxious human readers! Episode 2: “Turtle Ants”

  • Social Insect Distancing – Ep. 1: Ants and Aphids

    In response to the ongoing pandemic, we will be producing a short, mostly unscripted, no-frills daily podcast series: “Social Insect Distancing”. We hope that learning a little about ants will provide cross-species comfort for anxious human readers! Episode 1: “Ants and Aphids”

  • Joy, Loss, Ants

    This piece is a guest contribution by Natalia Piland. Joy, Loss, Ants I’ve been grieving a lot lately. Life seems to be a series of losses, things not quite turning out how you wanted. That can be transformative. But sometimes, like when someone you’ve just met shares their hopes for the future with you only to…

  • One Little Ant

    We told you to stay tuned, and we weren’t lying! Comic Correspondant Matt Hernandez brings us a fifth ant comic by Poorly Drawn Lines, this time with the whimsical title “One Little Ant“: Is this the final PDL ant comic? You better best believe it’s NOT!