Left-handers are more competitive than right-handers, according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports. The findings may help explain why left-handedness has persisted throughout ...

Here are some of the everyday struggles you'd go through if you were born left-handed. There's only one left-handed desk, and usually some 'righty' is sitting in it. Three ring binders are painful, ...

There was a time when left-handed people were actively oppressed. People were punished for being left-handed, and left-handed children were forced to use their right hands. But we no longer do that, ...

Have you heard the common trope that left-handed people are more successful in creative endeavors? There are plenty of anecdotal examples to make the case: Michelangelo, Albert Einstein, Paul ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

Does it make any difference if a human is left or right-handed or if a dog prefers to use his left or right paw when manipulating objects? I am continually struck by the similarity in the behavior ...

Approximately 10.6 per cent of people are left-handed, and this minority may just have a psychological edge over right-handers in competition, new research suggests. This edge is now believed to be ...