ITHACA, N.Y. — Every time you applaud at a concert or celebrate a touchdown, your hands are performing a feat of physics that scientists have puzzled over for decades. Cornell University researchers ...

EVERETT — What is the sound of one hand clapping? If said hand claps 403 times per minute, enough for an Everett teen to set a Guinness World Record, does it matter what it sounds like? Actually, yes, ...

Primitive though they may be, given just a simple audio recording of a single handclap, is it possible to determine the hand-configuration of the clapper via a computer-assisted digital analysis of ...

What’s the sound of one hand clapping? In Costa Rica, it’s a delicious little snap-snap-snap made by holding the hand nice and limp and flicking it from the wrist in a rapid, practiced way that makes ...