SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Researchers were inspired by a certain purple villain to study the physics of finger snapping, and they found that the mundane hand motion is actually quite an ...

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 ...

It all happens in a snap. New high-speed video exposes the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it physics behind snapping your fingers. The footage reveals the extreme speed at which the gesture occurs, and shows ...

I ask Bobby Badfingers, the enthusiastic finger-snapping maestro who was bounced last week from America's Got Talent, how he's been doing. "Pretty snappy," he replies without hesitation. Why shouldn't ...