There's nothing quite like that yelp of laughter you emit when being tickled. Now, experts have confirmed that shrieks induced by tickling really do sound recognisably different to other types of ...

At some point, almost everyone gets the giggles. The term is used for the relatively shallow and rapid laughter that arises in two related, but slightly different, circumstances. The first kind is the ...

Laughter has an infectious quality. One individual begins to laugh, and soon the whole room is in hysterics. Yet, beyond its capacity to ease tension or uplift spirits, laughter is growing in ...

They say laughter is the best medicine... just ask little Enna Stephens. The brave seven-year-old has just had a brain tumour removed – and now she can’t stop giggling. Doctors had warned her parents ...

Laughter has been offered up as a magic pill to help improve everything from memory to digestion. But some scientists, Erin Anderssen cautions, aren’t sold on the punchline Who needs a silly Adam ...