From school desks to spiral notebooks, everyday tools reveal how something as simple as dominant hand shapes daily life.

Left-handers are better at some types of sports than right-handers. But are they also more competitive? A new study says yes.

Left-handed people make up about 10 percent of the population, a minority that has faced everything from superstition to forced correction throughout history. Beyond the cultural challenges, ...

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 that, ...

Have you heard the common trope that left-handed people are more successful in creative endeavors? There are plenty of anecdotal examples to make the case: Michelangelo, Albert Einstein, Paul ...

THE LEFT-HANDED have long struggled in a right-handed world. But they are over-represented in one field: one-to-one sports such as fencing and tennis. The conventional explanation for this is that the ...

Being left-handed isn’t just rare — it can actually be dangerous. Studies suggest left-handed people have shorter average lifespans, largely because the world is designed for right-handed individuals.

A couple of years ago, I walked in on my left-handed mother attempting to cut a strip of fabric with right-handed scissors and silently cursing to herself. “We live in a world designed by right-handed ...