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 ...

It's thought that the origins of applause lie far, far back in the evolutionary history of mankind, at a time when our ...

A tight tech‑house clap delivers the kind of punchy, percussive hit that anchors the rhythmic groove at exactly the right moment. Think of an isolated handclap engineered to sit firmly within the ...

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 ...