Ants in space
Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 08:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
When NC State postdoc Clint Penick collected a group of pavement ants in a small mountain community in Western North Carolina last summer, he never dreamed they'd travel farther than his biology lab in Raleigh. Today, as they orbit the earth in the International Space Station 265 miles above sea level, the 600 ants from Spruce Pine are having the adventure of a lifetime.