Crowd (IMAGE)

Uppsala University

Crowd

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Dense crowds with shoulder-to-shoulder contact act like a solid material, with potentially disastrous outcomes.

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Photograph by Ulrike Biets; illustration by Arianna Bottinelli, David T. J. Sumpter, and Jesse L. Silverberg

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