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 ...

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.

Scientists say they may have finally solved the mystery of "handedness" and why some people have a dominant left or right ...

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 ...

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.