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

Right and left hands are not inherently meant to be used differently. It is due to the ‘folly of nurses and mothers’ that a ...

A still image from one of the experiments, showing position of people (red dots) and recent movement (the orange lines).

A crowd does not need a leader to fall into step. In public spaces, people sort themselves into lanes, avoid collisions, and ...

Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias ...

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

Crowds work in mysterious ways, sometimes behaving more like a hive-minded superorganism than a collection of individuals.

Researchers in Spain and Japan tested a broad range of pedestrians in varying group sizes to see whether there were any patterns to their turning behaviors, and what factors influence them if there ...

Answer: The planets of our solar system orbit the Sun in a counterclockwise direction (when viewed from above the Sun’s north pole) because of the way our solar system formed. Our Sun was born from a ...