Has a crucial component to the development of human medicine been hiding under our feet? Auburn University Assistant Professor of Entomology Clint Penick and a team of graduate students may have found ...

Think back to a time you helped someone move a heavy object, such as a couch. While at first the task may have appeared simple, it actually required a suite of advanced behaviors. The job needed ...

This efficiency has fascinated engineers, computer scientists, and urban planners, who have spent decades trying to understand how ants achieve it. The secret is communication—though not in the way we ...

A team of researchers led by Auburn University Assistant Professor Clint Penick studied ants like these, which are easily found in the Southeastern United States. Auburn University Assistant Professor ...

Here's what the pest pros say about battling this common pest.

Scientists across the South are warning the public about the spread of invasive Asian needle ants, whose painful stings can trigger life threatening allergic reactions and disrupt native ecosystems ...