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

Sixty percent of the oldest known galaxies seem to be rotating clockwise an asymmetry so extreme that one scientist described “any person looking at the image can see it.” The result, based on 263 ...

This week's question comes from Morning Brief reader Robert, who asks, "Do tornadoes rotate clockwise or counterclockwise? And why?" Meteorologist Jonathan Belles: The answer is both. Low pressure ...

Even when they placed patches over the left or right eye of participants, the bias remained the same, suggesting it was not a ...

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 ...

Controlling the rotation of this molecule could lead to new technologies for microelectronics, quantum computing and more. You can easily rotate a baseball in your hand by twisting your fingers. But ...

Whether a bacterium’s tail spins clockwise or counterclockwise was previously thought to depend on a ‘domino effect’ among proteins inside the tail. However, new research proposes that a tug-of-war is ...

Winds always rotate in a counterclockwise sense around hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere. Winds in tornadoes usually rotate counterclockwise, but in perhaps five percent of tornadoes, clockwise ...