Ants really are random wanderers

Seemingly blind search can make sense in practical and mathematical terms

"The beauty of a mathematical random walk is that it eventually visits all points in space if you walk long enough — and it always returns to its starting point," said William Baxter, an experimental physicist at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.

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