When people walk around at random, most tend to go in a counterclockwise direction--regardless of their handedness or culture, scientists have found.

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 ...

There’s a city park near my house with a small lake surrounded by a 2/3-mile trail that’s just perfect for running. It’s almost perfectly flat, and two large fountains spraying up from the lake’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People in Spain and Japan showed the same counterclockwise turning bias, pointing to a possible built-in feature of human movement ...