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 ...

Trophic egg influence on the larval caste fate To determine whether trophic eggs influence the process of caste determination, we compared the development of freshly hatched (first instar) larvae ...

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.

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 ...

The latest addition to the “caste train” is State Senator Aisha Wahab, who introduced a caste bill in the state of California.

New Delhi: Delhi University has asked the applicants under the reserved categories to disclose their sub-caste details during registration on its Comm.

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 ...

Ant plants from a remote Pacific island reveal new insights into an important ecological question: how unrelated and ...