About 10.6 percent of humans are left-handers, and the remaining 89.4 percent are right-handers (Papadatou-Pastou and co-workers, 2020). For many years, researchers were convinced that left- and right ...

It is often said that left-handedness runs in families, and most lefties know one or more family members that are also left-handed. So is there any scientific data supporting these anecdotal reports?

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For the first time, scientists have identified the genetic differences associated with left-handedness, a trait found in 10% of the human population. What's more, those genetic variants result in ...

We’ve all heard the whispers. Those southpaws among us supposedly have some kind of secret intellectual edge. From Leonardo da Vinci sketching with his left hand to Einstein supposedly jotting down ...

Researchers say they have found, for the first time, the genetic markers that influence whether someone is left-handed. They also found those people may have an advantage over right-handers when it ...

BOCHUM, Germany — Left-handed people appear significantly more often among those with certain mental and neurodevelopmental disorders, according to groundbreaking research that analyzed data from over ...

Researchers at Kumamoto University have now demonstrated a simple and effective way to control the handedness of an inorganic ...

Handedness, defined as the preferential use of one hand over the other, plays a pivotal role in shaping motor performance across a variety of sports. Variations in dominant hand usage influence not ...

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an exchange of gifts among my two grandmothers, mother, and aunt, featuring the trait they shared: all four were left-handed. Waiting for them under the tree in ...

Left-handed? Today is your day — International Left-Handers’ Day, that is — a day to celebrate the 10% who always feel they’re being elbowed out by the other 90%. While the body is remarkably ...