Ants use soil physics to excavate metre-long tunnels ...

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Ant colonies can descend several metres underground, house millions of insects and last for decades, despite being made without the benefit of machinery and reinforcing material. The secrets of these impressive architectural structures are being revealed by three-dimensional X-ray imaging and computer simulations, and could be used to develop robotic mining machines.

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2287862-ants-use-soil-physics-to-excavate-metre-long-tunnels-that-last-decades/ ".

From http://science.slashdot.org/story/21/08/23/2331206/ants-use-soil-physics-to-excavate-meter-long-tunnels-that-last-decades.

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