Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Kua whakaputaina ngā hua o tētahi whakamātautau i runga i te ISS ki te aroturuki i te āhua o te āhua o ngā kiore i te taumaha kore. I kitea e nga kairangahau he tino pai ta rātau mahi, mā te whakamahi i ētahi atu kiore, i ngā mata, i ngā pakitara rānei hei punga hei piki. Heoi anō, kāore i tino pai tō rātau āheinga ki te rapu ā-rōpū i a rātau e piko ana, e hinga ana i a rātau e whakamātau ana ki te tūhura. Panuku ki raro mō te ataata. I ako tētahi rōpū i California i ngā pūngāwerewere i roto i te pānga kore i te ISS. I tonoa ngā kaipūkaha ā-ao kia aroturuki i ngā pungawerewere i roto i ngā wāhi e waru i runga i te teihana. E kitea ana i konei te kaitiaki whetu o NASA a Rick Mastracchio e mātakitaki ana i ngā mahi o te rangahau Ants In Space CSI-06 i runga i te International Space Station. I whakaputaina te rangahau, Collective Search by Ants in Microgravity, i roto i te niupepa o Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. I kawea ngā pungawerewere ki te teihana i te marama o Hānuere 2014 ā, i muri mai ka akohia e ngā kaipāho o runga. Ka neke ngā kiore i roto i ngā kāhui i runga i ngā ture ā-roto, e whakatau ana i te tokomaha o ētahi atu kiore kei te tata mai mā te pa atu ki te antenna me te whakamahi i to rātau manawa kakara. I te mahi tahi, ka kapi katoa te oneone e nga pungawerewere kia kitea ai he kai, he taonga. Ka whakawhānuihia te rohe ka huri mai i te neke i roto i nga porowhita iti ki te rere i roto i nga raina tika, e hipoki ana i te whenua nui atu. Engari i roto i te ngoikoretanga iti o te mokowā, ka raruraru nga ture o nga pungawerewere, ā, me whakawhanake e rātau he huinga hou o ngā tikanga taketake hei mahi. Ka taea ēnei tikanga ngāwari te whakarerekē hei tohutohu i ngā pūkoro kia mahi tahi i te ara kotahi, mō ngā mahi pēnei i te rapu i tētahi whare e mura ana. <unk>Kāore mātou i te mōhio he aha te mahi a ngā pungawerewere. Kāore mātou i te mōhio mēnā ka taea e rātau te rapu", te kī a Pōrofesa Deborah Gordon, he kaipūtaiao koiora i te Whare Wānanga o Stanford, ki te BBC. I whakamahia e te whakamātautau e waru ngā wāhi noho rerekē, ā, e 80 ngā pungawerewere i roto i ia wāhi. I te whakatuwheratanga o nga tatau aukati i waenga i nga waahanga rereke, ka marara nga pirau ki te rapu i te rohe hou. Kātahi ka tuhihia e ngā kaipāho ā-ao ngā wāhi noho ki tētahi kāmera ataata HD. I mahia he whakamātautau whakahaere i runga i te Ao, ā, ko ngā hua - tērā pea...
I ako te kairangahau i California i nga pungawerewere i roto i te taumaha kore i runga i te ISS. I tonoa ngā kaitiaki ā-ao ki te aroturuki i ngā pungawerewere i ngā wāhi e waru i runga i te teihana. I a rātau e ngana ana ki te rapu, ka uaua rātau ki te pupuri i a rātau mau. Ko ētahi i rere noa iho mō te waru hēkona i te wā kotahi.