A recent study suggests that people have an innate tendency to walk counterclockwise, rather than the other way around.

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

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

Science has now confirmed it; we prefer to move in a counterclockwise direction. Two researchers, Dr Iñaki Echeverría Huarte ...

Even when they placed patches over the left or right eye of participants, the bias remained the same, suggesting it was not a ...

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 ...

Controlling the rotation of this molecule could lead to new technologies for microelectronics, quantum computing and more. You can easily rotate a baseball in your hand by twisting your fingers. But ...

Winds always rotate in a counterclockwise sense around hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere. Winds in tornadoes usually rotate counterclockwise, but in perhaps five percent of tornadoes, clockwise ...