{"593540":{"#nid":"593540","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ants Exhibit Towering Engineering Skills","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026#39;s a story right up Science Friday\u0026#39;s alley:\u0026nbsp;the remarkable ability of fire ants to build soaring towers out of their own bodies.\u0026nbsp;The new \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/4\/7\/170475.article-info\u0022\u003Eresearch\u003C\/a\u003E from\u0026nbsp;School of Biological Sciences Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/david-hu\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E gives public radio host \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/person\/ira-flatow\/\u0022\u003EIra Flatow\u003C\/a\u003E a chance to ask Hu not only\u0026nbsp;about ant engineering, but\u0026nbsp;also about what a fellow Tech professor\u0026nbsp;thought when things got a little antsy in his office. Hu is also an associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and an adjunct associate professor in the School of Physics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-07-17 16:05:39","changed_gmt":"2017-07-17 16:51:21","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"John Lewis Student Center","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/segments\/ants-exhibit-towering-engineering-skills\/","dateline":{"date":"2017-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-07-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"382241":{"id":"382241","type":"image","title":"David Hu","body":null,"created":"1449246231","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:23:51","changed":"1493396247","gmt_changed":"2017-04-28 16:17:27","alt":"Daivd Hu","file":{"fid":"75309","name":"hu.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hu.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hu.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":24895,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hu.jpg?itok=JoMWZnaG"}}},"media_ids":["382241"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"14545","name":"George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering"},{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"},{"id":"14335","name":"Fire Ants"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"174903","name":"ant towers"}],"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":""}}}