Ants in space is not the premise for the latest Dreamworks film,
but for an experiment carried out aboard the International
Space Station (ISS).
Eight colonies of common ants were flown up to the ISS by Nasa
in 2014 in order that researchers might study the effects of
microgravity on their behaviour and movements. A study published
this week in Frontiers of Ecology and
Evolution details the results of these experiments.
By: Katie Collins,
