It's such a natural reaction, but how did this custom begin?

With all the buzz surrounding that big flub at the Oscars last night when La La Land was announced as the winner of Best Picture and it was actually Moonlight, it was easy to overlook the actual most ...

Nicole Kidman got some attention for her bizarre clapping at the 2017 Oscars last month, but according to the actress, there’s a reason she had to applaud like a seal. During an interview on Australia ...

The Genius actor, 58, who played Pablo Picasso, sat in the crowd and clapped during the awards show, but the position of his fingers had some viewers slightly confused “What is Antonio Banderas doing ...

The clapping hands emoji: When used repetitively in a row, it signifies applause, but as any social media user by now understands, that is not the emoji's primary placement in the world of Twitter.

Have you ever clapped your hands to get someone’s attention? The resulting “crack!” sound is hard to ignore, rising above and penetrating through any background noise. Now imagine trying to do it ...

In case anyone wasn’t sure when to clap during President Trump’s State of the Union speech, he made it very clear, by loudly clapping at his own remarks into the microphone at his podium. Was it a ...

The highlight of my day — every day — is opening my window and yelling at the sky. By Amanda Hess Every night at 7, my Brooklyn neighborhood comes to life with the calculated whimsy of a cuckoo clock.

Before the Oscars ended with a surprise twist, the show gifted us a few funny memes. The biggest and best of these, perhaps, was Lion actress Nicole Kidman’s unusual clapping technique. Likened to the ...

In an interview with Kyle and Jackie O, Kidman said that she was wearing 119 carats worth of Harry Winston jewelry during the ceremony and was terrified of somehow destroying it. “It was really ...