If clapper rails were humans, their grandparents wouldn’t like them as youngsters. They directly contradict that old axiom about how well-mannered children should act — being often heard, but seldom ...

Scientists have finally unravelled the complex process that generates sound during handclaps, a discovery that shows how even simple acts can be rich with physics. The key to generating sound from ...

More than the roar of the MGM lion, more than the 20th Century Fox fanfare, the iconic sound of moviemaking is the sharp clap of a slate — although film folks have a language of their own to describe ...