A crowd does not need a leader to fall into step. In public spaces, people sort themselves into lanes, avoid collisions, and ...

Crowds work in mysterious ways, sometimes behaving more like a hive-minded superorganism than a collection of individuals.

A still image from one of the experiments, showing position of people (red dots) and recent movement (the orange lines).

Researchers in Spain and Japan tested a broad range of pedestrians in varying group sizes to see whether there were any ...

If you've ever felt like you naturally drift a certain way while walking, a team of Spanish physicists has some news: ...

As expected, our question of, "why do we dance western dance around the floor counter clockwise" generated a varied response. The question arose while attending a western swing concert at Quitaque ...