On a movie set, every scene and every take gets "slated" during filming, and there's that distinctive clap sound we all know. But what's it for?... 'Clap!' On Set, The Signature Sound Of The Slate ...

For the past fifteen years, the Super Smash Bros. franchise has been offering some of the most entertaining party games on any console. With the jump to online play, the party has now extended beyond ...

Social contagion If you wish to avoid the social faux pas of clapping at the wrong time, listen carefully to the volume of noise around you. That's the conclusion of a study about the social dynamics ...

Most of us think clapping is just about two hands hitting each other, but new research out this week in the journal Physical Review Research found that the clap that we hear actually comes from the ...

More than the roar of the MGM lion, more than the 20th Century Fox fanfare, the iconic sound of moviemaking is the sharp clap of a slate — although film folks have a language of their own to describe ...