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Gday. Today on The Brew well catch up with biz futurist Morris Miselowski at 12.10, live from Melbourne. He has a special guest with him this Tuesday, in the shape of Hong Kong based entrepreneur, Charles Lo. Morris met Charles at the recent CES in Las Vegas. Hes the founder of Upmood, which focuses on creating accessible and accurate emotion tracking technology. At 12.40 our mate Jarrod Watt will be with you to talk all things Aussie, and particularly about a new scientific study that shows the...

Whether a source of curiosity or annoyance, ants are central to life on Earth. Their microscopic world may seem foreign to us, but without them our world would be just as unrecognizable. Now, a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) estimates just how many ants are all around us: […]

Have you ever wondered exactly how many ants live on Earth? Possibly not, but its certainly a question weve asked ourselves.

Total biomass of this species is about 12 million tonnes, while the combined biomass of wild mammals and birds is two million tonnes and seven million tonnes, respectively

Ever wondered how many ants are crawling around on Earth? Scientists have tackled the seemingly impossible question and reveal a mind-boggling conclusion.

Invertebrates are “the little things that run the world”. So researchers decided to count all the ants on Earth, to help monitor how they’re coping with environmental challenges.

An ant (species: Ectatomma tuberculatum) photographed in Costa Rica. Ants make up a large fraction of the total animal biomass in most terrestrial ecosystems, but researchers say that an understanding of their global diversity is lacking. This new study provides a high-resolution map that estimates

New global diversity maps of ant populations have been produced, showing areas that are promising for finding as yet unknown species.

They are hunters, farmers, harvesters, gliders, herders, weavers and carpenters. They are ants, and they are a big part of our world, comprising more than 14,000 species and a large fraction of animal biomass in most terrestrial ecosystems. Like other invertebrates, ants play vital roles in the f

Ajay Narendra, Author provided The American biologist E.O. Wilson famously called invertebrates “the little things that run the world”.