Collective Clog Control: What Ants Can Teach Us About Traffic Flow (2 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Collective Clog Control: What Ants Can Teach Us About Traffic Flow (2 of 9)

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To understand their strategies for working effectively without clogging traffic jams, researchers studied how fire ants dug tunnels in glass particles that simulated soil. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 17, 2018, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Jeffrey Aguilar at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, and colleagues was titled, "Collective clog control: Optimizing traffic flow in confined biological and robophysical excavation."

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Rob Felt, Georgia Tech

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