Most people either burst into fits of laughter or squirm with discomfort when tickled — for some though, the automatic ...

Tickle Pickle, the Indian Ringneck Parrot, is convinced the Lovebird printed on his mom’s pajamas is his soulmate.

In the first week of Paris showings of fall clothes, things were so dull that buyers and critics began to get that feeling that afflicts spectators at some theaters-in-the-round—they found themselves ...

This year's theme is The Power of Music, with five specially designed pianos created in collaboration with local artists. Rayner demands tourist tax in clash with Reeves Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ...

I had numb patches, the feeling of a feather tickling my face, or ants on my skin (Picture: Maxim Vinciguerra/Infinity Focus) The GP looked over his glasses, smirked, and then started to laugh. ‘We ...

You might think tickling is just a childhood pastime, but it’s also one of the most understudied sensory behaviours in neuroscience. “Tickling is relatively under-researched,” says neuroscientist ...

Most of us have laughed uncontrollably when tickled. Yet almost none of us know why. Tickling sits at a strange crossroads – it’s universal, ancient, and deeply familiar, yet still barely understood ...

How come you can't tickle yourself? And why can some people handle tickling perfectly fine while others scream their heads off? Neuroscientists argue that we should take tickle research more seriously ...

Dear Eric: I have two boys ages 8 and 13. In most cases the sibling rivalry is about the same as any other family. One late evening, I picked them up at the dance studio and we came home. Everyone was ...

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been widely debated, paleontological discoveries and developmental biology studies ...