It’s one of the most addictive things humans can do. Everyone does it. And it feels so good when you get to do it. We’re talking about cracking your joints. Researchers have alway been curious as to ...

An MRI image of the same hand before knuckle cracking (left) and after (right), showing the void (dark spot) in the joint fluid that forms when the knuckles are cracked. An MRI image of the same hand ...

A cavity forming rapidly inside our finger joints may cause the popping sound heard when cracking knuckles, according to a real-time, MRI based study published April 15, 2015 in the open-access ...

"Pull my finger," a phrase embraced by school-aged kids and embarrassing uncles the world over, is now being used to settle a decades-long debate about what happens when you crack your knuckles.

Knuckles crack when a bubble forms in a joint, new high-speed images reveal. The finding, reported April 15 in PLOS ONE, may settle a decades-old debate about the source of the sound. In 1947, two ...

A University of Alberta study finally settles the decades-long debate about what happens when you crack your knuckles. The study published on April 15 in PLOS ONE used MRI video to determine what ...

You know how your mother always told you not to crack your knuckles because it would give you arthritis or some other horrible thing and you gave her that look and she said to stop or your face would ...

Scientists based out of the University of Alberta have -- for the first time -- imaged a joint cracking in real time, effectively putting to rest a decades-long debate in the process. They revealed ...

You might expect that a simple phenomenon like joint-cracking would be well understood. But there isn't actually a consensus as to why knuckles and backs and the like pop when bent in a certain way or ...

Human beings---well, the rude ones---crack their joints. It's a thing. But scientists have never really understood the physics behind that chilling noise. (And yes, they care.) In the 1970s, most ...

Anyone looking for surefire ways to ruin a first date could do a lot worse than frequent knuckle-cracking. You could propose, for one, or pants the server, but why go through all that embarrassment ...

From fingers and toes to necks and knees, everyone knows a “cracker.” Up to 45% of people do it. And most habitual joint poppers have heard rumors their habit may cause arthritis. But are those rumors ...