From U.S. presidents to elite athletes, lefties have turned what was once a stigma into a surprising advantage.

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 ...

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 ...

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Left-handedness and certain neurological disorders could go hand-in-hand, a new study revealed, though the researchers and others acknowledged potential limitations. While about 10% of people in the ...

Is it OK to shake somebody's left hand? How about passing the salt with your southpaw? We've got the tea on the times you ...

From minimal access to left handed tools like scissors, to even the building of infrastructure with only right handed people in mind, many left handed people know, first hand, just how much the world ...

An estimated 10% of people in the world are left-handed — and suffer from a societal bias than spans back centuries. Now, a new study published in the journal Psychological Bulletin has more bad news ...

Being left-handed seems to be an advantage in some sports, according to a study of athletes in world-rankings. Although only 1 in 10 people are left-handed, they found that more than 1 in 10 fencers ...