ANTS

What do a facebook group, a superhero movie, and a science podcast have in common?ANTSThat’s right, this episode we dive deep into the world of ants! What is really going on inside an ant’s nest, deep below ground? How do ants carry out epic heists when they can’t really plan or communicate? How accurate WAS Marvel’s Ant Man? Both in ant science… but also in physics?Episode Sources:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaIhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/ant-colonieshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004101011300384Xhttps://science.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/1014https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/osj/8/1/8_1_81/_article/-char/ja/https://academic.oup.com/jee/article-abstract/109/2/779/2379622https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/414723https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/585892https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1629898https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfLNIxKjDkchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HedZXw_hAbshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG-QZOTc5_Qhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3zy5M-L2s8&t=213sYou can follow Curiosity Killed the Rat on twitter (https://twitter.com/CuriosityRat), Insta (https://www.instagram.com/curiosityrat/), and facebook (https://www.facebook.com/curiosityrat/), and email in your listener questions to [email protected]