{"628083":{"#nid":"628083","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Study: Ants are \u201cimmune\u201d to traffic jams","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnts are notoriously much better than humans at organizing their collective traffic flow when foraging for food, but how they manage to do so isn\u0026#39;t fully understood...Last year, physicist \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/daniel-goldman\u0022\u003EDaniel Goldman\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026#39;s lab at Georgia Tech studied\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/361\/6403\/672\u0022\u003Ehow fire ants optimize\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;their tunnel digging.\u0026nbsp;Those tunnels are narrow, with barely enough room for two ants to pass, yet jams rarely happened.\u0026nbsp;When an ant encounters a tunnel in which other ants are already working, it retreats to find another tunnel. It also helps that only a fraction of the colony is digging at any given time: 30% of them do 70% of the work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-10-25 16:13:38","changed_gmt":"2019-10-25 16:17:05","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2019\/10\/study-ants-are-immune-to-traffic-jams\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-10-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-10-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628085":{"id":"628085","type":"image","title":"Ants in motion","body":null,"created":"1572020156","gmt_created":"2019-10-25 16:15:56","changed":"1572020156","gmt_changed":"2019-10-25 16:15:56","alt":"","file":{"fid":"239170","name":"2019 Ants in motion.Georgia Tech news center.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2019%20Ants%20in%20motion.Georgia%20Tech%20news%20center.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2019%20Ants%20in%20motion.Georgia%20Tech%20news%20center.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1883622,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2019%20Ants%20in%20motion.Georgia%20Tech%20news%20center.jpg?itok=9gkcE2g6"}}},"media_ids":["628085"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"182808","name":"ant locomotion"},{"id":"1262","name":"traffic"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"47881","name":"Dan Goldman"}],"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":""}}}