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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Andrew Quitmeyer, a Digital Media Ph.D. student and research assistant in the Bio-tracking Lab, has created a video that presents step-by-step instructions for color-coding ants within a colony. The color-coding of a single ant is a painstaking process which involves the use of CO2 gas, a stereoscope, and a small paintbrush. The technique is useful for tracking the movement of one ant among thousands, and is in use at labs like Georgia Tech and other labs which study emergent behavior in groups of insects. Source: Scientific American (Observations Blog) - February 17,2012
