Today, most modern industrial-scale wind turbines rotate clockwise, but there's no fundamental engineering law, scientific benefit, or mathematical reasons that require them to do so. Rather, it's ...

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 ...

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 ...