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Hand clapping is ubiquitous behavior for humans across time and cultures, serving many different purposes: to signify approval with applause, for instance, or to keep time to music. Acousticians often ...

Researchers deserve a round of applause for uncovering the science behind the acoustics produced from hand clapping that had not been clearly understood until recently. The daily gesture that people ...

Kelly Ripa called out a peculiar bodily happening on Live With Kelly and Mark. The daytime TV icon said she's experienced a "clapping sound" in her thighs in her fifties. "That's where I really notice ...

In a scene toward the end of the 2006 film, "X-Men: The Last Stand," a character claps and sends a shock wave that knocks out an opposing army. Sunny Jung, professor of biological and environmental ...

Social contagion If you wish to avoid the social faux pas of clapping at the wrong time, listen carefully to the volume of noise around you. That's the conclusion of a study about the social dynamics ...

Kelly Ripa is used to the in-studio applause on Live With Kelly and Mark each morning, but, as the daytime TV icon just revealed, she also regularly experiences a daily clapping sound of a different ...