Its designed for a right handed person and fits the ball of my hand perfectly. Although I know the person who made it would have been very different from me, in this way we are the same.

This axe, discovered in 1859, was the first strong evidence that we have been here for much longer. It is thought to be around 400,000 years old and, since then, even older stone tools have been ...

These seemingly innocuous hand gestures are considered rude in many parts of the world. “Hand gestures can vary significantly in their meaning cross-culturally, with common ones in one country ...

I didn’t really get into hand cream until 2020, when I’d started washing my hands with impressive frequency. It wasn’t too long before I realized my body lotion wasn’t going to cut it ...

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The hand is where the mind meets the world. We humans use our hands to build fires and sew quilts, to steer airplanes ...

DC's new, very large Batman has a new, very large Bat-axe—and maybe a laissez-faire approach to the Dark Knight's traditional "no killing" rule. DC is going big for its new “Absolute” series ...

While the colder months may mean moisturizing your hands is top of mind, the weather isn’t the only factor that leads to dry, cracked skin. Washing your hands, using hand sanitizer and doing ...

Waking up with a numb hand can be unsettling, especially if it happens frequently. A variety of factors can cause numbness in ...

A member of the Black Axe gang, one of Nigeria's most feared "cults" A violent mafia-style gang in Nigeria linked to murder and fraud has infiltrated the country's political system and launched a ...

Bryce Hoffman writes about leadership, strategy, and decision making. The hot-hand fallacy is a cognitive bias that leads individuals to believe that a person who has experienced success with a ...

“In some cases, Ukrainian special forces engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.” “The GUR completely liberated the territory of the Vovchansk aggregate plant and destroyed the ...