{"630234":{"#nid":"630234","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The physics behind how fire ants band together into robust floating \u201crafts\u201d","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMany things about the animal world fascinate\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hu.gatech.edu\/about\/\u0022\u003E David Hu.\u003C\/a\u003E He\u0026#39;s won awards and gained attention for his studies on everything from mammal urination and defecation, to this research involving fire ants and how they build rafts out of their bodies when floodwaters rise. Hu, an associate professor in the Schools of Biological Sciences and Physics, and his team found different fluid behaviors, such as vortexes, could change the size of the fire ant raft in several ways. Hu and members of his team presented at the American Physical Society\u0026#39;s Division of Fluid Dynamics \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/meetings.aps.org\/Meeting\/DFD19\/Session\/S31\u0022\u003E72nd Annual Meeting\u003C\/a\u003E in late November.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2019-12-19 18:55:12","changed_gmt":"2019-12-19 18:56:05","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"trauma recall","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2019\/12\/the-physics-behind-how-fire-ants-band-together-into-robust-floating-rafts\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-20T00:00:00-05:00","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":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"},{"id":"14335","name":"Fire Ants"},{"id":"183373","name":"rafts"},{"id":"183374","name":"floodwaters"}],"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":""}}}