The Takoma Park, Maryland, mayor’s order that people not clap during a public meeting led to insults and even a poll.

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 ...

A UNIVERSITY has come under fire after the student union banned clapping and cheering and replaced it with jazz hands, after claims the noise might trigger students. It might seem like a weird version ...

Nearly every human culture uses clapping to cheer, protest, pray or perform – but a new study reveals that the familiar gesture is as much a scientific event as it is a social one. “This is the first ...