What Ants Can Teach Us About Mass Transportation (Cool Weird Awesome 1089)
A UCLA study finds that humans might be able to find some transportation inspiration from another creature that moves around in large numbers: the ant.
Keeping Up With The World’s Fastest Ant (Cool Weird Awesome 152)
The Saharan silver ant can ran up to 108 of its own body lengths per second, making it the fastest ant in the world. But it lives in the desert, and running in sand usually slows us down. How the heck do they do it? Plus: in Banner Elk, North Carolina, the 42nd annual Woolly Worm Festival gets underway this weekend.