Construction supplies distributor White Cap announced Jan. 29 that it is set to acquire Colony Hardware in a significant market boost that will net the Atlanta-based firm over 60 branches throughout ...

Drone technology is poised for remarkable progress across multiple domains that are vital for human development.

Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...

After exposing an ant to the air pollutant ozone, its nestmates acted aggressively toward it. Henrik_L / iStock via Getty Images Air pollution is known to cause health problems in humans, such as ...

A single queen in the tropics; large colonies in deserts; workers with uniform morphology in temperate regions; ant social structures vary according to environmental conditions. This is shown, for the ...

Abstract: Set meal design (SMD) for online-to-offline (O2O) restaurant services presents a complex optimization problem, requiring the simultaneous satisfaction of diverse customer preferences, ...

Abstract: Traditional Ant Colony Optimization (T-ACO) algorithms often face challenges in dynamic environments, particularly the tendency to become trapped in local minima, resulting in suboptimal ...