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1School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. chris.reid@mq.edu.au.
Abstract:
Garg et al. (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120[6], e2207959120) build simulation models to understand how turtle ants collectively find efficient paths through branched networks, highlighting the importance of bidirectional traffic, leakage of ants at junctions, and the ability to increase flow as key components for efficiency. Their findings provide new, biologically realistic mechanisms that could improve applications in our own engineered networks.
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