The effect transcends factors like culture, gender and handedness, causing the scientists, who were initially studying social ...

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

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

Put a small crowd of people in an open space and ask them to walk around, and something odd happens. They do not move as ...

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

(Nanowerk News) You can easily rotate a baseball in your hand by twisting your fingers. But you need inventive scientists with access to world-class scientific facilities to rotate an object that is ...