Gayoung Lee

2 weeks ago | spektrum.de | Gayoung Lee

Maschinelle Übersetzung Lesedauer ca. 3 Minuten DruckenTeilen Menschenmengen: Wann Chaos ausbrichtChaos entsteht nicht nur durch Autos auf der Straße: Auch Menschenmengen bewegen sich manchmal so chaotisch, dass einzelne aufgehalten werden – wenn zu viele in zu viele unterschiedliche Richtungen wollen. Dies ist eine maschinell erzeugte Übersetzung eines Artikels der internationalen Partner von Spektrum.de. Er wurde von uns überprüft, jedoch nicht redaktionell bearbeitet.

2 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Gayoung Lee

Caterpillars are known for their fuzzy exterior and sometimes weird behavior. Some vibrate aggressively to scare predators; others create their own antifreeze to survive the cold. But a newly identified member of the offbeat caterpillar club might be the weirdest of all. Nicknamed the “bone collector,” it builds a disguise from insect cadavers it scrounges from a spiderweb, covering its body with these spider-meal leftovers—and occasionally engaging in cannibalism.

3 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Gayoung Lee

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of such combat in the form of Roman gladiators’ remains. Most of what we know about the fights comes from indirect records, such as texts or illustrations that described the bloody, raucous events.

3 weeks ago | scientificamerican.com | Gayoung Lee |Lee Billings

The allure of quantum computers is, at its heart, quite simple: by leveraging counterintuitive quantum effects, they could perform computational feats utterly impossible for any classical computer. But reality is more complex: to date, most claims of quantum “advantage”—an achievement by a quantum computer that a regular machine can’t match—have struggled to show they truly exceed classical capabilities.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Gayoung Lee

NowMusk caught in ‘code red’ moment at TeslaCNN — Like many American manufacturers, Tesla is caught in a bind thanks to President Donald Trump’s trade war. Unlike most of those other companies, though, Tesla has an added wrinkle – its CEO, Elon Musk, sometimes called the First Buddy for the close relationship he’s cultivated with the president.