Some birds sing to attract a mate. Others dance or display colorful feathers. But in the moonlit forests and shrublands of ...

In northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, producing a sound scientists have puzzled ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unprecedented video shows a male gray seal using its flippers to produce a loud sound underwater. Scientists say it could be a previously undocumented form of communication, in which the seals are ...

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Wild grey seals can clap their flippers underwater during breeding season. Marine mammals like whales and seals usually communicate vocally using calls and whistles. But now a Monash University-led ...