{"593740":{"#nid":"593740","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The bizarre physics of fire ants","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe latest\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/4\/7\/170475\u0022\u003Eresearch\u003C\/a\u003E led by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/david-hu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E on fire ants and their tower-building capabilities is compelling enough on its own. But video really adds a \u0026quot;wow\u0026quot; factor to it, and this Vox entry is a great example. In addition to an\u0026nbsp;interview with Hu, it also has lab video showing living\u0026nbsp;blobs of entangled ants being handled by researchers\u0026nbsp;like they were lumps of Play-Doh.\u0026nbsp;Hu is an associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. He is also an adjunct associate professor in the School of Physics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-07-26 15:04:31","changed_gmt":"2017-07-27 21:10:44","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Ramblin\u0027 Royalty","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/videos\/2017\/7\/25\/16025522\/fire-ant-float-physics","dateline":{"date":"2017-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","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":"174931","name":"tower building"}],"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":""}}}