Professor Alain Goriely might not be Calamity Jane riding the Deadwood Stage but he could just be one of the first people to truly understand what makes a "whip crack-away". As a staple element of ...

A black Cobb County student who said another teenager at her school used an app on his cell phone to play the sound of a cracking whip wants the district to listen to the concerns of minorities on ...

The noise at the tip is milder than a firecracker, but the tiny flicker at the end makes it seem otherwise. Sixty feet away from the tennis courts at Dolores Park, the popping is audible over the ball ...