A machine designed to create the optimal stimuli for tickling feet could serve as a stress reliever by inducing uncontrolled laughter, say researchers. The device is battery-operated and can be fitted ...

Everyone wants to live a stress-free life, but everyday life is stressful. The 'tickling insole' developed by a New Zealand research team is strange at first glance, but it is a device that ...

What does the skin on the soles of your feet have to do with balance? Quirks & Quarks interviews University of Guelph professor Leah Bent, whose experiments "tickling" the feet of astronauts aims to ...

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 ...

UPPER DARBY, Pa. (AP) – An eastern Pennsylvania man has been jailed on charges he lured a 12-year-old boy into his home where he examined and tickled the boy’s feet while pretending to be a doctor and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A Bakersfield police officer has been placed ...

A teacher has been arrested and suspended following allegations from pupils that he tickled and sniffed primary school children's feet. The staff member was held on suspicion of 'assault by touching', ...