A still image from one of the experiments, showing position of people (red dots) and recent movement (the orange lines). (Echeverría-Huarte et al. CC-BY-ND) Suppose you're wandering around a space ...

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 randomly as you might think. Again and again, in experiments in Spain and Japan ...

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 ...

Left to your own devices? Turns out you’ll probably go left. Whether you’re going for a stroll around the neighborhood while on the phone or killing time before your train arrives, odds are you’re ...