I have just discovered a profoundly human, evolutionarily crucial fact about the new baby in our house: He likes to be tickled. This isn’t a joke. For centuries, the deepest of thinkers — Aristotle, ...

Being ticklish is incredibly common: many of us can’t bear others tickling our feet, armpits, stomachs and other body parts. Scientists have debated why we’re ticklish for years, with some saying it’s ...

Can you tickle yourself if you are fooled into thinking that someone else is tickling you? A new experiment says no, challenging a widely accepted theory about how our brains work. Jakob Hohwy and ...

Researchers in Australia tickled the rodents every day for a month to see if it would improve their emotional well-being. By Yan Zhuang MELBOURNE, Australia — It’s generally not a good time to be a ...

A man was left paralysed on the left side of his body for weeks – now a miraculous ‘tickle in his ear’ could get his body working again. After having a stroke in April 2022, Stephen Hewitt was unable ...