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Georgia Tech Associate Professor David Hu explains how collections of ants can change their shapes and actions based on their environments. Hu and School of Physics Associate Professor Alberto Fernandez-Nieves co-authored a study that found that ants are able to do this because the insects are actually liquid-like and solid-like simultaneously.