Eleven people were injured in a crowd crush incident in an Atlanta train station early Tuesday morning after a Beyoncé concert. Police reported that a woman had screamed and started running for an ...

Who is to blame for the deaths of eight people at the Astroworld Festival last Friday? Houston police have opened a criminal investigation. Meanwhile, concertgoers have already filed more than 20 ...

When does a crowd become dangerous? Should you push back in a crush of people? Those are some of the questions you might be asking yourself, after eight people died and more were hurt during a Travis ...

In the era of viral protests and hyper-connected citizenry, governments worldwide face unprecedented challenges. OP Singh, Indian Police Service officer and author of the forthcoming book ‘Crowd ...

Last Saturday night the Love Parade in Duisburg was supposed to be a celebration of music and revelry, but it turned into one of the most shocking crowd disasters of recent years. 21 people died and ...

Understanding crowd dynamics can prevent disaster at cultural or sports events. Physicists investigating a recent crowd disaster in Germany found that one of the key causes was that at some point the ...

Why do some mass gatherings turn violent? Experts in crowd behavior say there’s still much to learn. By Benedict Carey The reign of King Louis Philippe, the last king of France, came to an abrupt and ...

Stampedes unfortunately occur on too regular a basis. Previously, physicists developed numerous models of crowd evacuation dynamics. Now, a new study outlines a procedure for quantitatively comparing ...

As Saudi authorities investigate yet another deadly stampede during the final rite of the hajj pilgrimage Thursday, experts in crowd dynamics say that the root of such tragedies is more often a matter ...