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A CT scan machine offers a close look at how fire ants grip each other at a force of 400 times their body weight to build waterproof rafts to stay alive.
Alison D. Gilbert‘s insight:
Fire ants are the great engineers of life rafts and bridges according to a study done at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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