Elven colony sim DarkSwitch just got an official release date, so buckle up for cable cars and airships as you erect your treeside utopia

DarkSwitch is coming to Steam March 12, 2026. So only a few months to go before you can get stuck into some vertical, elven city building. Wishlisting now is the best way to keep an eye out for ...

'Come and kill me': sick ants invite destruction to save colony

Sick young ants release a chemical signal urging worker ants to destroy them, a behaviour aimed at protecting the colony from ...
IEEE

Robust Model Selection for Plant Leaf Image Recognition Based on Evolutionary Ant Colony Optimization With Learning Rate Schedule

Abstract: Selecting optimal deep learning models is often a time-consuming process. To address this challenge, we propose a novel variant of the ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm. This approach ...
IEEE

Q-Learning Enabled Ant Colony (Q-ANT)-Based Navigation Optimization Framework for UAVs

Abstract: Flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs) composed of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which are serving in both military as well as civilian domains. The environmental changes and alterations in ...
The New York Times

Parasitic Queen: Now She’s Stealing an Ant Fief

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on their own mother. By Rebecca Dzombak Rebecca Dzombak previously reported on ...