I have recently encountered an endearing trend among high-school and college students, informally as well as in classrooms and in larger gatherings: collective finger-snapping. Once, in the middle of ...

When I got your question, I snapped my fingers a few times to try and find the exact source of the sound. After a few tries, I decided to ask my friend Troy Bennefield, the director of Athletic Bands ...

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A group of physicists debating the logic of Marvel movies kick-started a research project that resulted in a new understanding of just how extreme the motion of snapping your fingers is. They were ...