Headlines: Farmer protests and light festival crowds
Farmers in Gloucestershire joined the national protests against changes in inheritance tax which will come into force in 2026 ...
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Packed Festival Crowds Aren’t Chaotic — They Form Living Vortices, Which Can Be Predicted with Physics
Every year, on July 6, thousands of people gather in the Plaza Consistorial in Pamplona, Spain, for the opening ceremony of ...
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Dozens killed in crowd crush at world’s largest religious festival
Dozens of people were killed in a crowd crush at the world’s largest religious gathering in India early Wednesday, as tens of ...
Spanish 'running of the bulls' festival reveals crowd movements can be predictable, above a certain density
The collective motion of large crowds may be predictable past a certain density of people in a given area, according to a study published in Nature. The findings, based on four years of observations ...
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Crowds suck people into a vortex — surprising physicists
Studying crowd dynamics could inform strategies that help to prevent dense gatherings from becoming dangerous.
The Physics That Keeps a Crowd From Becoming a Stampede
A group of scientists studying the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, believe there’s a way to predict the motions of a large crowd.
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Crowd chaos and confusion at site of India festival stampede
Journeying across India for the pinnacle celebration of the Hindu calendar, Laxmi and her family were sleeping by the ...