David Wolman's new book, A Left Hand Turn Around the World, explores the scientific factors that lead to 10 percent of the human race being left-handed. Wolman tells Madeleine Brand about the book.

A study by Cornell University students has suggested that lefties are not more creative despite a popular myth, but in fact, ...

A large-scale study finds no evidence that left-handed people are more creative, challenging a long-held myth about ...

New research challenges the myth that left-handers are more creative, showing righties may lead in key creative fields.

A left-handed grip will rotate the left side of the chest, and thus most of the heart, toward an enemy, while a right-handed grip will rotate it away. Moreover, a free left arm could be used to ...

Brain scans indicate that left-handed people think differently from right-handed people. They tend to activate the right half of their brain more for certain tasks and functions. Experts suggest ...

But like most human beings, left- or right-handed, Doolittle is also a bit ambidextrous: "I play golf right-handed, I kick with my right foot, I'm pretty good with scissors!" he said.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Clyde Francks, a geneticist in the Netherlands, about the latest research into what makes people left or right-handed.

As one of many left-handed people on staff here at Fast ... a study led by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics identified precisely where left-handedness shows up in the human brain.

Approximately 10% of the human population is left-handed. Among them, one in five exhibits a peculiar brain phenomenon known as atypical language lateralization. While most people attribute their ...