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

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 ...

Scientists have found a striking, innate tendency for people across demographics, cultures and conditions to veer in a ...

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

“Our results may appear as a minor insignificant discovery, but in nature, most phenomena related to locomotion show that ...

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

A crowd does not need a leader to fall into step. In public spaces, people sort themselves into lanes, avoid collisions, and slip through bottlenecks with surprising ease. Now a new study suggests ...

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 ...

Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias toward wandering in a counterclockwise direction. By Rachel Nuwer Iñaki ...