Kid Rock had an on-stage meltdown after a Nashville crowd refused to clap to the beat. The 54-year-old country star made a surprise guest appearance at Jon Bon Jovi’s Tennessee restaurant, JBJ ...

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 ...

Live entertainment creates a kind of excitement that feels immediate and shared. The room reacts together. Laughter spreads ...

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 ...

Singer and rapper Kid Rock stormed off stage at a Nashville performance this weekend, cutting the show short when the audience didn't clap along. On Saturday night, the "All Summer Long" artist ...

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 ...

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 research, published in the ...

Kid Rock stormed off stage during a Saturday performance at Jon Bon Jovi's Nashville bar after scolding the audience for not clapping. You can watch his outburst below. "No, fuck them. Fuck them. Hey, ...