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 ...

"Clapping hands is a daily, human activity and form of communication," Jung said. "We use it in religious rituals, or to ...

The Science of Applause. Clapping is deeply human. It punctuates concerts and classrooms, protests and prayers. But until now, scientists had only scratched the surface of what actually creates ...

Hand clapping is ubiquitous behavior for humans across time and cultures, serving many different purposes: to signify approval with applause, for instance, or to keep time to music.

When hands come together, they create a pocket of air between the palms. That pocket is rapidly expelled from the narrow opening between the forefinger and thumb, causing the air molecules to vibrate.

Clapping hands spew out a jet of air, visualized here by baby powder. That jet helps explain the sweet sound of applause. Yicong Fu, Cornell University ...

Dynamic acoustics of hand clapping, elucidated. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / 250312165601.htm. Cornell University.

The sound of Paul McCartney and Wings’ “One Hand Clapping” used to only be heard on bootlegs, or in snippets available on archival releases over the years. But it’s new (mostly) complete ...

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 ...