No, we're not lying.) To commemorate this momentous occasion, we've set about uncovering the world's most famous left-handers. According to science (that's as specific as we can be), only 10% of ...

Why are left-handed people so rare, with right-handed people making up 90% of the population? Some scientists have tried to answer this question, such as in 2012, when researchers at Northwestern ...

Marie Curie was a Polish scientist whose work ... “Japanese Babe Ruth”, after the famous American baseball player – and guess what? Ruth was left-handed, too.

But there are certain cognitive domains where left-handed people do seem to excel. One such area is called "divergent thinking," or the ability to generate new ideas based on existing information.

Scientists have found the first genetic instructions hardwired into human DNA that are linked to being left-handed. The instructions also seem to be heavily involved in the structure and function ...