For most of human history, being left-handed was treated as a flaw, a bad omen, or worse. The Latin word for left, "sinister," said it all. Today that stigma is long gone, but a quieter mystery ...

Across the globe, most people are right-handed. On average, only around 10 percent of people are left-handed. Despite more than 100 years of research on the origins of left-handedness, it is still not ...

About 10 out of 100 people are left-handed. Understanding the reason why has intrigued scientists for many years. However, despite more than 100 years of scientific research on left-handedness, it is ...

What do Lady Gaga, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Paul McCartney and Justin Bieber have in common with Ronald Reagan, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Fidel Castro and David Bowie? They are all left-handed, a ...

A team of geneticists at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in The Netherlands, has found a genetic variant that codes for a tubulin protein that may be partially responsible for ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. If you're left-handed, like me, you ...

To what extent do genes determine how you pick up your morning cup of coffee? Researchers examined rare genetic variants from a database of more than 350,000 individuals’ genetic data to hunt for ...

Being right- or left-handed is a familiar fact about yourself you likely don’t think about much on a day-to-day basis. However, your handedness affects how you interact with the world. For many people ...

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