Cool operator: the Saharan silver ant Cataglyphis bombycina. (Courtesy: P Landmann) A species of desert-dwelling ant is able to tolerate temperatures exceeding 50 °C because its body hairs act like ...
“There is no branch of detective science that is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps,” says the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Now, UK researchers have developed a ...
The body hairs of the Saharan silver ant cause total internal reflection of light to make the ants almost ten times more reflective, preventing overheating and yielding their silver sheen, according ...
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