There's a handful of people — roughly 10 percent of the global population — that has something in common. Many mysteries and misconceptions surround this group. Its members have been called ...

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. If you're left-handed, like me, you know you are ...

August 13 is International Lefthander's Day! Only about 11% of the world's population is left-handed, including Barack Obama, Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey! Even though lefties are said to be more ...

A sweeping review of more than a century’s research upends the popular notion that left-handers are naturally more creative. Cornell psychologist Daniel Casasanto’s team sifted nearly a thousand ...

I recently stumbled upon a description of research out of Yale that suggested there was a link between left-handedness and psychotic disorders like schizophrenia. Forty percent of those with psychotic ...