Outsmarted by ants

Francis Ratnieks
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Francis Ratnieks: Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, University of Sheffield

Nature, 2005, vol. 436, issue 7050, 465-465

Abstract: An elegant orientation solution that is used by ants to get back to their nest eluded even Richard Feynman, suggesting that social insects could help to solve many of our engineering problems.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1038/436465a

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