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Nature 436, 465 (28 July 2005) | doi:10.1038/436465a; Published online 27 July 2005
Outsmarted by ants
Francis Ratnieks1
- Professor Francis Ratnieks is in the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK, and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Wallostrasse 19, Berlin 14193, Germany.
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Abstract
An elegant orientation solution that is used by ants to get back to their nest eluded even Richard Feynman, suggesting that social insects could help to solve many of our engineering problems.
Richard Feynman, the Nobel prizewinning physicist who died in 1988, was smart. Omni magazine once declared him "The smartest man in the world".
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