Do you crack your knuckles? For decades, warnings about possible harm have caused concern about the habit — here is what the ...

If you’ve ever popped or cracked your joints — by accident or on purpose — you’re not alone. There’s even a medical name for that crackling, clicking or popping sound your bones make: crepitus.

When someone stretches or bends their knuckle to crack it, they increase the space between the bones, which creates a drop in ...

Good morning. I'm Noel King with the answer to a mystery that has puzzled scientists and kids for years. When we crack our knuckles, why do they make that popping sound? A grad student in France, ...

If you’ve ever popped or cracked your joints — by accident or on purpose — you’re not alone. There’s even a medical name for that crackling, clicking or popping sound your bones make: crepitus.

The sweet release of cracking knuckles has always baffled scientists. Over the years, scientists trying to explain the cracking sound have pointed to “bubbles” created by rapid pressure changes in the ...

Joints emit a variety of noises, including popping, snapping, catching, clicking, grinding, grating, and clunking. The technical term for these noises is “crepitus”, from the Latin “to rattle”. People ...

Is knuckle cracking harmless? According to Dr David Abbasi, occasional pops are fine, but frequent forceful cracking can ...

I have no idea why popping knuckles makes this noise, but it was established it does no harm back in 1998, an achievement for which Donald Unger won the Ig Nobel medicine prize in 2009. Every day for ...

A graduate student in France is the latest to investigate why cracking knuckles make that noise. His answer involved a series of math equations. Good morning. I'm Noel King with the answer to a ...