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 ...

I know youre out there I can hear you breathing! This was nothing like Las Vegas, except for the hint of flop sweat in the air. It was a function room in a Washington hotel, and the audience was the ...

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.

Dwayne Johnson kept wiping away tears during a resounding 15-minute standing ovation following the Sept. 1 Venice ...

People at their balconies and windows clap for the NHS in St Johns Wood, London. Credit: Beretta/Sims/Shutterstock At 8pm on Thursday, millions of people in the UK ...