What is it that really makes us laugh? To find out, New Scientist visited Laughter Lab, an exhibition and social experiment at London’s Cartoon Museum. Showcasing a wide selection of cartoonists from ...

Gigglebug, a newly released iPad app from Finland, uses infectious laughter to encourage social play among children. Through touching and swiping the screen, players can tickle various 2D animated ...

Each week, The New Yorker's cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff, judges his fellow cartoonists from on high. He's in a - maybe he sits on a comically exaggerated high horse, it's hard to say - but no man ...

When thinking about New Yorker cartoons, I don’t think the word “offensive” often comes to mind. Or at least to most minds. But offensiveness, like love, is in the eye of the beholder, and there are ...

Intuitively we know humor helps us cope. Trust your instinct on this one, and you’ll be following the science that supports it. Of course, many challenging issues require your attention, but hopefully ...

I believe there is a two-second rule when it comes to cartoons. If a cartoon doesn’t make you laugh in two seconds, it probably is not going to. That doesn’t mean it's a bad cartoon; it just means you ...

A futuristic space station, rainforests and oceans will be explored by a cast of diverse kids and their animal friends in a new 3D-animated television show, Planet Blue. The show’s creators hope to ...

Intuitively we know humor helps us cope. Trust your instinct on this one, and you’ll be following the science that supports it. Of course, many challenging issues require your attention, but hopefully ...