If you’re a lefty and have ever felt excluded from the right-handed club as you write a letter, throw a ball, or wield a ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

Humans are overwhelmingly right-handed, but scientists have long struggled to explain why no other primate species shows ...

A long-standing goal of neuroscience is to understand how molecules and cellular structures on a microscale give rise to communication between brain regions at the macroscale. "A central goal of ...

A newly discovered genetic mutation unique to humans may help explain why we are significantly more vulnerable to cancer than our closest evolutionary relatives. Researchers at the University of ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Assistant Professor Rich Lopez joins us to discuss why human brains aren’t programmed for ...