Happy to be alive

This picture and the accompanying caption have been whizzing round the internet in the last few days. I'm

Birkbeck Babylab at London Baby Show

We are going to be at the Baby Show this weekend. It's at the ExCel centre in London

Your Babies #011: Kelly humours her father

Babies laugh a lot so it is not surprising if they laugh at seemingly strange things. But who or what

What makes Canadian babies laugh?

I did a live interview with Canadian breakfast TV last week. Here it is: That was the first time I&

Your Babies #010: Evan falling about with laughter, Toddy less impressed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz3zkov1CxU Here we see 8.5 month old Evan having hysterics over mummy Michelle&

Your Babies #009: Frankie losing his wee mind.

Julie Lovell sent in this video of her 5.5 month old son Frankie. I'll let her explain:

Your Babies #008: Lily laughing at tearing paper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWWdQLR9l Babies laugh at lots of things we wouldn't expect them to.

The science of a baby's smile

Sandra Kiume over at ChannelN has a nice video of new research that uses babies smiles to track their development.

Your Babies #007: Callan can't take Ikea seriously

Laughter is a two-way street. It isn't long before laughing babies start clowning around, trying to make us

THE "original" laughing baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjXi6X-moxE Apparently, this laughing baby (aka William Nilsson) is so well known that he

Laugh... wait... Laugh... wait.... Laugh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnagemulucw We've probably had this one before but a friend just sent

Richard Bacon interview

Welcome to listener's to Radio Five Live. Caspar was on Richard Bacon's show this afternoon (click

Baby scientists

As a baby scientist I often get asked 'What is a baby scientist?'. One answer is that I

Your Babies #006: Jasper already full of laughter at 9 weeks

Many babies are already laughing by three months old. (Many others aren't as babies start laughing a wide

Your theories on baby's laughter

In one of the questions in our survey we ask parents for their theories on what makes their babies laugh.

What is the most memorable example of your baby laughing?

Here are some of your answers to our survey question about the most memorable laugh.(Some of my favourites are

Ho ho ho, hee hee hee. It's Baby Santa

Wag the dog: A science project for babies' best friend.

Pet dogs are high up on the list of things that make babies laugh. But what makes dogs wag their

Some early results of our study.

We’ve had over 300 responses from 22 different countries. So far we’ve found a surprisingly wide range of

Your Babies #005: Gangnam Style is popular with babies too.

It had to happen sooner or later, those two YouTube juggernauts, laughing babies and Korean popstar Psy have collided. Stephenie

Should we tickle babies?

Like a ride on a rollercoaster, tickling can teeter on the brink of being scary or unpleasant. In fact that&

BBC World Service: Why do we Laugh?

he BBC World service programme the Why Factor has just broadcast a short program on why people laugh. You can

Welcome, Bienvenue, Selamat datang, में आपका स्वागत है, Dialu-alukan

It seems that last week's story in the Independent got picked up all around the world. So welcome

Welcome readers of the Independent.

We are very pleased that the Independent has taken an interest in the baby laughter project. We like their article