Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the World; and may His blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions. Generally clapping of hands could be classified in two ...

Clapping is both a scientific event and a social gesture. A study explores the complex physics behind the sound of clapping. The noise originates from compressed air, not just hand collisions.

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 ...

OXFORD, UK (WTHR) — Attention, students and staff — clapping is no longer allowed. Oxford University has banned clapping and instead opted for (silently) waving. The university passed a mandate to ...

The student union denies it's banning clapping at university functions. A British university has come under fire after its student union body passed a motion on Friday to replace clapping with the ...