Why can't you tickle yourself? Learn more about the process in the brain that prevents it from happening.

One morning in 1961, eight-year-old Adam asked his dad: "What does a tickle look like?" This was the moment copywriter Roger Hargreaves started thinking of the answer and then drew Mr Tickle, the ...

Earlier this year, Moonshiners star Steven Ray Tickle, known simply as Tickle on the Discovery Channel reality show, was released from jail. However, he's not back on the hit series just yet. Last ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Rachel Feltman and Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post Dear Science: Why do we only laugh when someone else tickles us? Why can’t I tickle myself? Your ...

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Aging is such a complex process in the body and brain it seems impossible that a technique involving daily ear stimulation — known as “tickle therapy” — might be able to fight it. But a team at the ...

Tickling or fluttering in the chest can be a symptom of a number of health conditions, from heart- to lung- to stomach-related ones. While most causes aren’t serious, there are some circumstances ...

Marc J Buehner receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and has previously been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He is affiliated with the Association for ...