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Ants Live 10 Times Longer by Altering Their Insulin Responses

The Quanta Podcast

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In some ant species, queens live more than 30 years while laying the thousands upon thousands of eggs. In contrast, worker ants, which are females that don't reproduce, live only months. Laurent Keller is a professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Hyperjumps challenges you to find simple number combinations to get your rocket from one exoplanet to the next.

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