In a new TED talk, SFI Science Board member Deborah Gordon explains how ant behavior, her lifelong research passion, can help us better understand brains, cancer, and the Internet.
"I've recently realized that ants are using interactions differently in different environments, and that got me thinking that we could learn from this about other systems, like brains and data networks that we engineer, and even cancer," she begins.
Watch her TED talk (posted May 14, 2014)