Good news for those who struggle to bop to the beat, clap at the wrong time and bump into everyone on the dance floor: You may have an excuse. Researchers are working on defining a new kind of sensory ...

Scientists have developed an app to understand why some rhythms are more difficult to perform than others. Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have developed an app to understand why some ...

Good news if you can't hold a beat: An app called Steve Reich’s Clapping Music might be able to fix you. Clapping Music, from the British app shop Touchpress, is a gamified lesson in tempo. It plays ...

When hands come together, they create a pocket of air between the palms. Clapping is an inherent human action performed to cheer, protest or pray, but a new study has shown that the gesture is as much ...

Clapping is a universal gesture used across cultures to celebrate, protest, worship, or perform—but a new study shows it's not just social, it's also deeply scientific. Researchers from Cornell ...

People who can't clap on the beat drive comedian Aaron Michael King crazy, especially one group in particular. He devoted a whole YouTube sketch to ... some white people he knows. "This needs to stop, ...