A round of applause, please: Scientists have finally figured out what’s behind the sound of clapping. The research pinpoints a mechanism called a Helmholtz resonator — the same acoustic concept that ...

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Wal-Mart Hears The Sound Of One Hand Clapping by Gregory Sullivan — Friday, December 28, 2007, 09:00 AM EDT Comments ...

In a pivotal scene from the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand, a mutant claps his hands and blasts a shockwave across a battlefield. In a theater somewhere, Sunny Jung watched—and wondered. “It made me ...

What does this pandemic sound like? The London-based Japanese artist Yuri Suzuki is building an archive of sounds with a crowd-sourced project in which participants around the world have submitted ...

Last summer I went to take in a movie at the Fine Arts theater on South Michigan Avenue, and was startled by what I saw. It wasn’t the movie that startled me; the movie was fine. It was the ...

A fifth-grader has written this blog asking for help with a science project... does anyone have any theories on the sound level (dB) and frequency (Hertz) of the average hand clap? I think he's trying ...

Scientists have finally unravelled the complex process that generates sound during handclaps, a discovery that shows how even simple acts can be rich with physics. The research, published in the ...