The researchers used high-speed cameras to track the hand motion, air flow and sound of 10 volunteers clapping, measuring the ...

Scientists followed an interdisciplinary approach to understand clapping, using live experiments, theoretical modelling and silicone replicas of human hands.

The results: The hand configuration that produced the loudest clap—85.2 dB—consisted of holding the hands 45 degrees to each other with the palms partially overlapping.

Understanding the physics of hand clapping, Fu says, could help develop methods to identify people by their claps — for example, allowing users to log into a device based on their unique clap.

One readily noticeable pathognomonic trait of autism is hand-flapping—a stereotyped motor movement that can look a bit like an attempt to accelerating the drying of nail polish. Not all with ...

It might be hard to imagine yourself in ancient Rome, but if you were dropped into the audience of a play 2000 years ago, you’d probably know what to do when it finished – start clapping. Making a ...

Kristof Kaczmarek talks about his role in the film 'The Sound of One Hand Clapping' by Richard Flanagan. The film is screening at the International Film Festival in Melbourne ...

The concept of an individual nature is, like one hand clapping, an illusion. On further reflection, this illuminated for me another ineffable mystery, one that I mentioned earlier: why I love my wife.

The research, published in the journal Physical Review Research, shows that the characteristic “pop” sound of a clap is not just from two hands smashing into each other but a much more complex ...

One readily noticeable pathognomonic trait of autism is hand-flapping—a stereotyped motor movement that can look a bit like an attempt to accelerating the drying of nail polish. Not all with ...

The study shows that when hands come together during a clap, they create a pocket of air between the palms. This pocket is rapidly expelled from the narrow opening between the forefinger and thumb ...