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 ...
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, said ...
WERTHEIMER: But what makes us clap more for some performances than others? You'd think it's obvious: the better the show, the more applause. Think again. New research at Uppsala University in Sweden ...