Jeff Sims yelled for the ball and the snap, barely missing a motioning tight end, reached his hands. He dropped the ball, which was recovered by Colorado for its first points of the day. This was ...

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 ...

Something went a bit awry Saturday night when Kid Rock made a special appearance at Bon Jovi’s keyboardist David Bryan’s birthday celebration in Nashville — after the crowd’s response wasn’t up to ...

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. Acousticians often ...

A clip of first lady Jill Biden urging an audience to clap at comments she made during a speech has gone viral. Biden appeared disappointed as remarks she gave at the Reagan Institute Summit on ...

Modern American ballparks are surrounded by all the trappings of the fan experience: loud music, fried foods and cold beers, T-shirt guns, mascots dancing while the crowd sings about Cracker Jacks—and ...

Have you been tuning into Major League Baseball’s shortened spring training games? As with every other sports league and virtually every event, there are no fans in the stands due to COVID-19. In a ...

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 ...

It was nearing 6:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The setting was Court 17, one of the venue’s more intimate courts, a tidy tennis theatre in the round.