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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

New research identifies regions of the genome associated with left-handedness in the general population and links their effects with brain architecture. Scientists linked these genetic differences ...

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?