QR codes help University researchers to understand ants

QR codes on ants

The scientists were able to use the barcodes to monitor the social hierarchy in a colony. Scientists in Switzerland from the University of Lausanne have found a new and fascinating use for QR codes in which they were employed to better understand the social hierarchy of ants, so that fascinating new discoveries could be made. The use of the barcodes allowed an entire colony of ants to be tracked by following each individual. The scientists were able to use the QR codes to individually mark each member of an ant…

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