Crowds gather at the San Fermín festival in Pamplona during the famous running of the bulls
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People in very dense crowds move in small circular “trajectories” like charged particles moving through a magnetic field. This unexpected discovery could lead to improved mathematical descriptions of dense crowds, which could help us better understand why crowds sometimes move in ways that can lead to injuries. There is a gender.
Dennis Bartolo Researchers from France’s ENS de Lyon studied videos of dense crowds forming during the opening.
Source: www.newscientist.com
