Punx Can’t Laugh Weekender, a Toronto-based three-day festival featuring punk rock and stand-up comedy, has announced details for this year. The musical portion of the festival features Travis Miles ...

A new study from the University of Warwick suggests that the rhythm of human laughter has remained surprisingly consistent for at least 15 million years. By comparing the laughter of humans and other ...

Scientists mapped two hidden laughter networks in the brain, revealing why spontaneous laughter cannot be faked and may even help ease pain.

Laughter is a universal social signal that connects us with others, but the brain regions underlying laughter are not well understood, in part because it's hard to elicit genuine laughter in the lab.

Spontaneous and voluntary laughter come from two different regions of the brain, reveals new research. Laughter is a universal social signal that connects us with other people. But, until now, the ...