If "The Ant Bully" were released 50 years ago, it would be read, not at all incorrectly, as communist propaganda. In the computer-animated story, a colony of ants captures a young American boy and ...

This morning in the car, my daughter and I caught the latest offering from National Public Radio science correspondent Robert Krulwich: “Can Ants Count?” Perfect for a few minutes of brain-waking.

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Young graduates carry food in Tangjialing, a village 12 miles north of Beijing that has attracted jobless and underemployed Chinese, or 'ants.' Young people calling ...