{"587122":{"#nid":"587122","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Of a Frog\u2019s Slap Shot and Saliva","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYou never know when a frog playing an electronic game will lead to an experiment on the physics of saliva....Alexis C. Noel, a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, and her supervisor, David L. Hu, were watching a viral YouTube video in which a frog is attacking the screen of a smartphone running an ant-smashing game. It appears to be winning. They started wondering how \u0026mdash; in reality \u0026mdash; frog tongues stick to insects so quickly when they shoot out to grab them, and decided it was a phenomenon worth studying.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EDavid Hu is an associate professor of mechanical engineering and of biology, as well as an adjunct associate professor of physics, at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-02-08 14:54:08","changed_gmt":"2017-02-08 16:18:15","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Extension of Self","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/06\/science\/frogs-sticky-spit-video.html?_r=0","dateline":{"date":"2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"173428","name":"Alexis Noel"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"},{"id":"173435","name":"frog tongues"}],"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":""}}}