Watching a concert or a sports event alongside thousands of other people can be both exhilarating and dangerous, and researchers now have new theories about how people behave when they get too ...

Researchers studying the movement of crowds at a traditional Spanish festival have shown that densely packed groups of people form swirling ‘vortex’ patterns never before documented in human ...

American tennis player Danielle Collins taunts the Australian Open crowd. / Robert Prange/Getty Images The Australian Open crowd really did not like American Danielle Collins during her second rou ...

Debates over President-elect Trump's inaugural crowd size notably generated controversy back in 2017, with the White House insisting the media underreported Trump's numbers. With his swearing-in ...

To the untrained eye, the crowd seems chaotic, a sea of bodies moving in unpredictable ways. But according to a new study, there’s a hidden predictable order to this movement — one that could ...

Trump, a Republican, was unhappy with photographs published by media outlets suggesting his inauguration crowd in Washington's National Mall was smaller than the one that had gathered for ...

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While this shift eliminates typical weather-related counting obstacles, indoor venues present their own measurement challenges for crowd scientists. The question of attendance numbers is likely to ...

Nothing tests crowd management quite like faith. Especially when, spread over just six weeks, 40 crore people are expected to descend on a city. At the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj, faith led to chaos, and ...