Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. Doing science isn’t easy. It takes an enormous amount of time and energy to collect and analyze data. At least, that’s ...

Have you ever thought about what happens when you snap your fingers? Raghav Acharya, Elio Challita, Mark Ilton and Saad Bhamla have looked deeply into the physics of the finger snap and published a ...

We Homo sapiens take our ability to snap for granted. So much so that anything we think of as easy is a snap to do. But a new study from a team of researchers and students published in the Journal of ...

The iconic Thanos' finger snap using his Infinity gauntlet has puzzled some fans if it is possible in real life. Some believed that a person could do the same thing. Believe it or not, some ...

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 ...

Most people don't question the scientific accuracy of what goes on in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, like how Tony Starks' souped up Iron Man suits work or how Captain Marvel can whiz through outer ...