Science news articles about 'people in a crowd'

... societies to date suggests it is very likely that many other sections of the population, especially young people who are under huge amounts of pressure at school and home, are feeling the same sense ...

Focusing on technology instead of people is a key factor in events going wrong, according to a major series of reports into crowd behaviour and management, published this week. Compiled for the ...

... mechanism in humans and other animals helps us understand how people behave in crowds and shows why sometimes people in groups do apparently stupid things, such as stand in the street and ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Concerns about a possible pandemic have sent people streaming into crowded emergency rooms and walk-in clinics - not with swine flu, but the swine flu jitters....

Like people at a crowded cocktail party, killer whales raise their voices to be heard in busy waters. This may mean the animals are wearing themselves out to communicate during hunts, ...