When an ant pupa signals its imminent death caused by an incurable infection, worker ants unpack it from its cocoon and disinfect it, leading to its demise. Credit: © Christopher D. Pull / ISTA Ant societies behave like tightly integrated "superorganisms," where thousands of individuals work together in a way that resembles the coordinated activity of cells in a body. Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have found that terminally ill ant brood release a

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