Stepping outside their nest for the first time, young ants need to learn how to forage. The ants train partly by walking a loop near ... where the shape of landmarks keep changing.

Three short-sighted spiders are clustered at the vertex of a wire frame in the shape of a tetrahedron. The spiders know that there is an ant walking around the frame, but they have no idea where ...

Nick Gravish, paper coauthor, faculty member, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego The researchers had previously studied ant walking and wanted ...

no matter the size and shape. New research suggests ants walking backward are as good at navigating to their destination as forward-walking ants. Dipti Kapadia reports. Photo: Sarah Pfeffer ...

Intrinsic features are those that relate to the distances between points on the surface, as would be measured by an ant walking on it ... and pull life into shape To deform an intrinsically ...