If anyone tells you that playing computer games is a waste of time, you can now offer up a raised middle digit without any guilt. After all, mobile title Quantum Moves isn't just a way to kill an hour, but is actually helping a group of Danish scientists build a quantum computer. The team out of Aarhaus University studied how people played the game in order to crowdsource people's knowledge of fluid dynamics. It turns out that the human brain is far better at solving complicated fluid dynamics problems than a room full of supercomputers.
Via: Popular Mechanics
Source: Nature
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