Jasper will soon start regular injections of Jack Jumper ant venom to desensitise him to it. The treatment takes five years, but it’ll be worth it if it saves his life.

Normally, in a multicellular life form—be this a human, a dog, or a bat—all cells contain identical genetic material. The research team concludes that male yellow crazy ants are chimeras: they develop ...

The comic-book hero Ant-Man, which hits the big screen in North America on July 17, may be small—but he's got some serious superpowers. In the movie based on Marvel's Avengers series, a blast of ...