Refueling cars is a standard procedure, but not every car has its gas cap on the same side, with some on the left, some on the right. There's a good reason why.

Adrian Young, senior aviation consultant at To70, told The Independent: "The vast majority of modern aeroplanes board/deplane on the left hand side and are serviced on the right hand side.

Question: Why do some cars have the fuel filler door on the driver’s side while others have it on the passenger’s side?” Robert Frank: This is actually one of the examples included in my ...

That counterclockwise motion could be described by your own right hand, showing how, once again, the mirror appeared to exchange left-for-right, while leaving the up-and-down direction unchanged.

While most left-right confusions in everyday life are harmless, there are certain jobs in which you really do not want to confuse left and right — surgeon probably comes to mind first.

Strikingly, the right hemisphere of people with autism seems to respond earlier to sound than the left hemisphere, echoing the accelerated right-side maturation we saw in our study on mice.

This new statistic emerged in a study of 2,000 Americans, which found that Americans who sleep on the left side are more likely to prefer oldies music and drama films, whereas right-side sleepers ...

"As a right-handed person, I prefer to sit on the left side of the plane, in an aisle seat, as this makes it easier to work ...

For certain tasks, one side of the brain will dominate the other. Although this is well known, exactly how one side takes control has been a mystery.

As children grow older, they tend to favour one hand over the other for certain tasks, particularly for writing or drawing. A child’s “handedness” is generally categorised as right, left or ...

The left brain contains regions involved in speech and language and is also associated with mathematical calculation and fact retrieval. The right brain plays a role in visual and auditory ...

Left and right brains hear speech differently, yet how this divide forms was unclear − until mouse studies showed each hemisphere runs on its own developmental clock.