Driven by the desire to improve our own ability to dig underground—whether it is for mining, subways or underground farming—a team of researchers from Caltech has unraveled one of the secrets behind how ants build their amazingly complex and stable structures. Led by the laboratory of Jose Andrade, the George W. Housner Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, the team studied the digging habits of ants and uncovered the mechanisms guiding them. The research is described in a paper publish

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