I’m left-handed, which means I’ve spent my entire life fumbling with scissors, wiping ink smudges from my pinky finger, and thumbing through magazines backwards. I’ve always accepted that being ...

While the days of forcing left-handed children to use their right hands are mostly over, the bias against lefties continues in most languages around the world.

Globally, 10.6 percent of people are left-handers, while the remaining 89.4 percent are right-handers (Papadatou-Pastou et al., 2020). While it is known that handedness is influenced by both genetic ...

Sometimes I feel like I am an alien in my own world. True confession: I am left-handed. I am so left-handed that I cannot do anything with my right hand.

(CNN) -- 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 ...

(CN) — A vast majority of humanity uses their right hand to write and for other skills, but a good 10% of us are left hand dominant. But why do some people use one hand and not the other? According to ...

Researchers from the University of St Andrews have collaborated with a multinational team of researchers from Greece, the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK to explore the intriguing connection between ...

There is no single gene for handedness Since the mid-1980s more than 100 journal articles have explored the idea that a single gene might influence handedness. These theories suggested one variant of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who don't show a hand preference are more likely than their righty or lefty peers to perform poorly in school, a new study in the journal Pediatrics shows. And ...

If you're fed up with scissors designed for right-handed people, spare a thought for the long-suffering lefties who, in the not-so-distant past, were forced to learn to write with their non-dominant ...