From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

In the Touch and Tickle laboratory at Radboud University, volunteers are tickled by a special robot while researchers record their brain activity, breathing and sweating. The aim is to try to ...

The human response to being tickled is really danged weird. When someone pokes another someone just so, the result is often spontaneous, uncontrollable laughter. This response is known as gargalesis, ...