Researchers deserve a round of applause for uncovering the science behind the acoustics produced from hand clapping that had not been clearly understood until recently. The daily gesture that people ...

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 ...

This is a sound event detection (SED) demo for sounds that you can make around your computer: clapping, breathing, knocking and more. A public domain audio data set is preprocessed for training ...

Scientists found that clapping sounds come from trapped air escaping rapidly between palms, creating vibrations. Cornell and University of Mississippi's study shows that hand speed, size, and skin ...

The northern lights of Earth are more than just dazzling light shows — they also generate their own strange applause too, a new study reveals. The same energetic particles that create the dancing, ...