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 were asked to stand up and walk in any direction, which way would you go? According to new research, regardless of if ...

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 ...

One of the six simple machines, a screw is nothing more than an inclined plane wrapped around a center pole. While today screws come in standard sizes, and typically are tightened by turning clockwise ...