Which side of your brain gets the most use, the right or the left? Today, most people have heard that each hemisphere of the brain manages different tasks. If we favor one type of thinking over ...

At the fictional Hogwarts school for witchcraft and wizardry in the Harry Potter series, students are sorted into different school houses by a magic hat based on their personalities. Similarly, in ...

This research was funded by the Wellcome Trust (ISSF/Birkbeck) and the Waterloo Foundation (REF: 917-3756). Whether you’re left, right or ambidextrous, “handedness” is part of our identity. But a lot ...

Elephants' wrinkly trunks might serve a purpose and reveal whether the individual prefers to bend the handy appendage to the right or the left. Byrdyak via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Until ...

I am a pianist of unimpressive amateur ability and have always found that published music at my level is much more demanding on my right hand than on my left. Being right-handed myself, this is OK. It ...

Americans express roughly equal levels of concern about left-wing and right-wing extremism and violence, according to a new The Economist/YouGov poll. At the same time, overwhelming majorities believe ...

Here is one version of the left-right spectrum, as described in 1975 by a former Barry Goldwater speechwriter who had left the conservative movement to break bread with Black Panthers and Wobblies.