Patterns of human behavior and movement in crowded cities -- the tipping point at which agitated crowds become anti-social mobs, the configuration of civic areas as defensible spaces that also promote ...

*It's a press release. This augmented photogrammetry is truly strange and different. CrowdOptic Introduces Next-Generation of Crowd Behavioral Analytics Technology (((you likely didn't know there was ...

The conventional wisdom behind forceful crowd control deserves a review of its own. Rather than passively controlling a protest, heavy riot gear actively changes the dynamics of crowd behavior, ...

Researchers have used ultrafast lasers to uncover a previously unseen type of collective electronic behavior in semiconductors, findings which may impact the design of new optoelectronic devices. Like ...

The death of at least 56 people in a stampede at a soccer stadium in Nzérékoré, Guinea, is the latest example of how quickly mass gatherings can turn catastrophic. A team of researchers affiliated ...

When people gather in large groups, they often act in ways that are different from how they would behave individually. Crowds can be manipulated in many ways. Mob behavior, swarm behavior, and herding ...

It was bad. Not soccer bad, perhaps, but still ugly. Not Lima, Peru, 1964 bad, when over 300 fans died in a riot after a referee call, or Moscow, Russia, in 1982 bad when another 340 soccer stadium ...

Both Simone Biles and Suni Lee failed to reach the podium in Monday’s balance beam final. This was after both U.S. gymnasts fell mid-routine, resulting in Biles and Lee finishing with a corresponding ...