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 ...

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

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 ...

For many of us, the tickling response is paradoxical — the playfulness it inspires is typically enjoyable, but the overstimulated nerves and loss of control can feel distressing. Whether you find it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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One morning in 1961, eight-year-old Adam asked his dad: "What does a tickle look like?" This was the moment copywriter Roger ...

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 ...

It’s almost impossible to get a laugh by self-tickling, says David Robson, and the reason why tells us surprising things about the brain and consciousness. If you want to probe some of the great ...