{"609891":{"#nid":"609891","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnts are renowned for their industriousness. However, new research at Georgia Tech suggests that although ant colonies are very efficient, that may be because 70 percent of them are doing very little \u0026mdash; at least when it comes to tunnel digging. \u003Cstrong\u003EDaniel I. Goldman\u003C\/strong\u003E, a physicist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his colleagues, found that the secret to efficient tunnel digging by fire ants was that 30 percent of the ants did 70 percent of the work. The work is published in \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/361\/6403\/672.editor-summary\u0022\u003EScience\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/em\u003EFind more coverage at \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/speaking-of-science\/wp\/2018\/08\/16\/industrious-fire-ants-reveal-surprise-secret-to-success-selective-laziness\/\u0022\u003EThe Washington Post\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/what-robots-could-learn-fire-ants\u0022\u003EScienceNews\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eand \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cosmosmagazine.com\/physics\/when-it-comes-to-collective-effort-laziness-plays-off\u0022\u003ECosmos\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-08-17 14:54:28","changed_gmt":"2018-08-17 15:20:18","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Extension of Self","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/16\/science\/ants-worker-idleness.html","dateline":{"date":"2018-08-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-08-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"609889":{"id":"609889","type":"image","title":"Dan Goldman (R) with Ph.D. student Banhisikha Dutta","body":null,"created":"1534517244","gmt_created":"2018-08-17 14:47:24","changed":"1534517244","gmt_changed":"2018-08-17 14:47:24","alt":"","file":{"fid":"232268","name":"2018 Dan Goldman.dan-goldman-006.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20Dan%20Goldman.dan-goldman-006.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%20Dan%20Goldman.dan-goldman-006.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":824218,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2018%20Dan%20Goldman.dan-goldman-006.jpg?itok=0-pgQZQp"}}},"media_ids":["609889"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}