Chirality—often described as "handedness"—is a fundamental property of nature, underlying the behavior of molecules ranging ...

A new type of OLED can generate left- or right-handed circularly polarized light from just one form of light-emitting ...

Study demonstrates a chiral fermionic valve that separates handedness via quantum geometry, enabling transport and ...

(CN) — A vast majority of humanity uses their right hand to write and for other skills, but a good 10% of us are left hand dominant. But why do some people use one hand and not the other? According to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who don't show a hand preference are more likely than their righty or lefty peers to perform poorly in school, a new study in the journal Pediatrics shows. And ...

It is often said that left-handedness runs in families, and most lefties know one or more family members that are also left-handed. So is there any scientific data supporting these anecdotal reports?

Molecules that have the ability to change their structure in response to a chemical or physical stimulus are called ‘responsive molecules’. This type of molecule plays an important role in signal ...

Globally, 10.6 percent of people are left-handers, while the remaining 89.4 percent are right-handers (Papadatou-Pastou et al., 2020). While it is known that handedness is influenced by both genetic ...

About 10% of the population is left-handed, but 40% of those with schizophrenia are, according to a new study. That suggests that handedness may be a window into biological markers that predict ...

LEFT AND RIGHT: A wild type st 45 Xenopus embryo with rightward heart looping and counter-clockwise gut coiling is shown on the left. In contrast, a st 45 embryo that was injected with Pitx2 at the 4 ...