{"593458":{"#nid":"593458","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ants Can Build an Eiffel Tower (Sort Of)","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnts as energetic engineers \u0026ndash; that\u0026#39;s clear from the latest \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/4\/7\/170475\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E led by School of Biological Sciences Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/david-hu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;The work reveals\u0026nbsp;in great detail\u0026nbsp;how fire ants\u0026nbsp;can build Eiffel Tower-like structures with their own bodies. Applications could lead to structure-building robots. This New York Times video\u0026nbsp;shows off the Tech research team\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;experiments, including an X-ray video highlighting\u0026nbsp;the ants\u0026#39;\u0026nbsp;remarkable ability to quickly build\u0026nbsp;wide-base towers.\u0026nbsp;Hu\u0026nbsp;is also an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff\u0026nbsp;School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and an adjunct associate\u0026nbsp;professor in the School of Physics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-07-12 14:38:42","changed_gmt":"2017-07-12 15:07:49","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Extension of Self","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/science\/100000005161948\/ants-building-towers.html?action=click\u0026gtype=vhs\u0026version=vhs-heading\u0026module=vhs\u0026region=title-area","dateline":{"date":"2017-07-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-07-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"382241":{"id":"382241","type":"image","title":"David Hu","body":null,"created":"1449246231","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:23:51","changed":"1493396247","gmt_changed":"2017-04-28 16:17:27","alt":"Daivd Hu","file":{"fid":"75309","name":"hu.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hu.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hu.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":24895,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hu.jpg?itok=3IFHegGR"}}},"media_ids":["382241"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"14545","name":"George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"},{"id":"14335","name":"Fire Ants"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"174911","name":"Eiffel Tower"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}