The wince-inducing sound of knuckles cracking is caused by a small bubble building up in the fluid of the fingers then ‘popping ‘, scientists believe, and it could even be beneficial to health. For ...

What do you get when you combine the "Wayne Gretzky of knuckle cracking" with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine? The answer to a very old question, it turns out. By using MRI to video-record ...

It might be a sound that makes most people wince but a group of researchers have knuckled down to discover the science behind why joints crack. In a new 'cracking' study, scientists from the ...

In some households, cracking your knuckles is a declaration of war. Whether you’re in the camp that can’t stand the sound or the one that can’t see what the fuss is about, you might be surprised to ...

There aren’t any awards to be won for solving science’s minor mysteries—why yawning is contagious, why puppies make us melt—but that doesn’t mean we don’t want the answers anyway. Add to those ...

A simulation reveals just what is making the satisfying ‘pop’ noise when you crack your knuckles. I mean, I have to say, the use of ‘satisfying’ here is certainly subjective, as for some of us, that ...

Some people love to sit cracking their knuckles – while everybody else winces and feels ill around them. Perhaps as a result of this, a lot of people believe that cracking one’s knuckles is terribly ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. You might’ve been told by parents, teachers, colleagues, friends of friends to stop cracking your ...