Once they’ve mated, the role of the male ants is over and they tend to die within a week. Female ants, uh, chew off their ...

Figure 1. Trophic egg production is widespread in ants. Simplified phylogenetic tree of ant subfamilies redrawn after Romiguier et al. (2022). The number of species with documented trophic egg ...

Ant genomes reveal how social insects evolved cooperation, preserved caste genes, and rewired chromosomes over 100 million ...

The “caste system” is still depicted by media like the BBC as a horrifying straitjacket, that shackles Hindus lifelong at birth. The belief infects virtually every liberal and every human ...

Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a switch. By manipulating just two neuropeptides, scientists can turn ...

The caste census must be viewed beyond binaries of “for or against” to envision a more transformative idea — as a foundational tool for what might be called a social management approach to ...

Effectively, an American state body tried to define religious beliefs, claiming that the caste system was an integral part of Hinduism. It even assigned religion to an individual based on its own ...

However, this has not been confirmed by the university. "Asking candidates to specify their caste is unconstitutional. It is derogatory, too," said Latika Gupta, a faculty member at DU.

India News: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah clarified that the Congress high command, not his government, decided to conduct a fresh caste survey, amidst concerns about ...

Aristotle praised the political organization of ant colonies while ancient Chinese Daoists appreciated ants as illustrative symbols showing how ephemeral human ambitions and power are. Throughout ...

The Madras High Court has called upon the Tamil Nadu government to issue a Government Order (G.O.) empowering the revenue officials to issue ‘no caste, no community’ certificates to ...