Socrates wondered 2,000 years ago, and Charles Darwin also racked his brains: what is a tickle, and why are we so sensitive to tickling? ‘Tickling is relatively under-researched,’ says neuroscientist ...

The Sundance documentary Tickled — summarized with the logline “a New Zealand reporter accidentally stumbles upon an underground competitive tickling contest” — sounded like a barrel of laughs. But ...

There’s not a PR firm in the world that could spin the reputation of the rat. They’re aggressive, they’re destructive and they’re everywhere. The global rat population is estimated to be at least 7 ...

Anthony Cuthbertson is a staff writer at Newsweek, based in London. Anthony's awards include Digital Writer of the Year (Online Media Awards) and Journalist of the Year (Association of Online ...

At some point, every kid has learned this cold, hard fact of life: it’s impossible to tickle yourself. But why? As the Brain Bank explains, the simple answer is that you’re already expecting the ...