{"261881":{"#nid":"261881","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ants That Can Flow Like a Fluid, or Move Like a Solid","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology, including Zhongyang Liu and David Hu, are interested in the ways that a mass of fire ants can act like a fluid or a solid, depending on the situation. It\u2019s the first time this duality had been observed in a group of living things.\u0026nbsp;The research could have practical implications, Dr. Hu said, for self-assembling robots, which build themselves out of smaller bits and for self-healing materials.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2013-12-17 23:41:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:54","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Extension of Self","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/17\/science\/ants-that-can-flow-like-a-fluid-or-move-like-a-solid.html?_r=2\u0026","dateline":{"date":"2013-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-12-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"},{"id":"78811","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines"},{"id":"78271","name":"IRIM"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"}],"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":""}}}