Climate Control in Termite Mounds

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 00:31 in Physics & Chemistry

Researchers from Harvard and MIT have found that fluctuations in outside temperature create convection currents within termite mounds to ventilate the living space -- work at the 67th annual meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics, held November 23-25 in San Francisco.

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