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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...