What is it about a tickle that makes us giggle? And why can’t we tickle ourselves? Greg Foot explains all. When you're touched, the nerve endings under your top layer of skin, or epidermis, send ...

Maybe there is a tickle monster living underground or on a planet called Ticklelandia. And the people come to Earth and while we’re sleeping, they get in our mouths and live in our bodies. That’s why ...

In 1994, researchers noticed that when rats anticipated an opportunity to play, they would let out a series of squeaky chirps. These were high-pitched, measured at 50 kilohertz. The researchers began ...

My 8-year-old son recently told me he didn’t want to go to his cousins’ house. They are 11 and 12. He said they tickle-tortured him. They told him to lie down to do a trick, then one lifted up his ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For 10 years, David Farrier had what he calls "this very fun, cushy job" at TV3 in New Zealand doing the short wacky item concluding ...

How do whales hear music? They listen to orca-stras! I told that joke to a lizard and got crickets. It made me wonder the same thing as Eid Muhammad Afridi, who asked Saturday's Weird Animal Question ...

Why tickling makes us laugh is one of those weird, unexplained questions which can only be explained by brainy scientists. Molecular biology and genetics boffin Dr Emily Grossman (a science educator ...