This looping collection emulates a real theater audience erupting with applause, delivering a rich tapestry of layered hand‑to‑hand clinks and audible swells that rise and fade with human nuance. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

From Slate to theAP, it appears to be unanimous among writers covering Sarah Palin's speech at the RNC: the applause sounded like thunder. And, listening to applause in isolation, it starts to sound ...

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

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 ...