The snapping of a finger was first depicted in ancient Greek art around 300 B.C. Today, that same snap initiates evil forces for the villain Thanos in Marvel’s latest Avengers movie. Both media ...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has delivered audiences countless amazing and unbelievable events, but a group of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology recently uncovered that, after ...

A nagging, nerdy question from the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s mega-hyped 2018 film “Avengers: Infinity War” led to a discovery about the nature of human hand mechanics, because that’s apparently how ...

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 ...

The Question of the Day should be a snap - tracks that feature the sound of finger snapping. Leave your suggestions in the comments below and we'll spin a set after 9 a.m.

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 ...

Researchers studied the physics of a finger snap and determined how friction plays a critical role. Using an intermediate amount of friction, not too high and not too low, a snap of the finger ...