{"682777":{"#nid":"682777","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"First evidence of \u2018living towers\u2019 made of worms discovered in nature","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/david-hu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the Schools of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBiological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and Mechanical Engineering, drew on ant behavior in his commentary of a study that examined towering behavior in nematodes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAnts, which assemble to form buoyant rafts to survive floodwaters, are among the few creatures known to team up like nematodes, said Hu.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cAnts are incredibly sacrificial for one another, and they do not generally fight within the colony,\u201d Hu said. \u201cThat\u2019s because of their genetics. They all come from the same queen, so they are like siblings.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ENotably, there has been a lot of interest in studying cooperative animal behaviors among the robotics community, Hu said. It\u2019s possible that one day, he added, information about the complex sociality of creatures like nematodes could be used to inform how technology, such as computer servers or drone systems, communicates.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/david-hu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the Schools of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBiological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and Mechanical Engineering, drew on ant behavior in his commentary of a study that examined towering behavior in nematodes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EAnts, which assemble to form buoyant rafts to survive floodwaters, are among the few creatures known to team up like nematodes, said Hu.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u201cAnts are incredibly sacrificial for one another, and they do not generally fight within the colony,\u201d Hu said. \u201cThat\u2019s because of their genetics. They all come from the same queen, so they are like siblings.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003ENotably, there has been a lot of interest in studying cooperative animal behaviors among the robotics community, Hu said. It\u2019s possible that one day, he added, information about the complex sociality of creatures like nematodes could be used to inform how technology, such as computer servers or drone systems, communicates.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-06-12 18:39:33","changed_gmt":"2025-06-13 14:33:35","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"CNN","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/06\/05\/science\/nematode-stacking-worms-living-towers","dateline":{"date":"2025-06-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-06-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"}],"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":""}}}