COLUMBUS, Ohio--When participants in a charity event took the first walk across the newly opened London Millennium Footbridge in 2000, their feet fell into sync, and the natural side-to-side motion of ...

In June 2000, the London Millennium Footbridge linking Bankside with the City of London was officially opened with a charity walk. However, participants caused the bridge to sway as they fell into ...

The first people to walk across the original Millennium Bridge may have been unnerved when it began to sway, but the bridge was actually doing them a favor: the swaying enabled them to walk the ...

Crowds Walking Can Make A Bridge Sway A study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society explains why thousands of tourists were able to make the London Millennium Bridge sway on its opening day in 2000.

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Steve Strogatz has a penchant for things that happen in unison. So when the Cornell University professor of theoretical and applied mechanics (and author of the 2003 book "Sync: The ...

A natural phenomenon rather than a design fault caused London's Millennium Bridge to wobble and sway, forcing its closure just two days after opening in 2000. The elegant pedestrian walkway was ...

A quarter of a century after it opened and promptly closed, London's Millennium Bridge is marking its 25th anniversary. The footbridge, which spans the Thames between St Paul's Cathedral and the Tate ...

Engineers are using lessons learned from London’s Millennium Bridge, notorious for wobbling on its opening day, to prevent an unwelcome repeat situation on a slender, curved new cable-stayed structure ...

Engineers for London’s £18m Millennium Bridge have finally worked out how crowds of pedestrians made it wobble so alarmingly on its opening day. The answer is a simple relationship. As the bridge ...

LONDON — It was supposed to be a “blade of light” into the 21st century. Adored by architecture critics and eagerly awaited by Londoners, the Millennium Bridge opened last summer with great ...