Italian scientists who documented humans interacting in everyday situations have found that women are more susceptible to catching the urge to yawn from others than men are. The findings, published in ...

Merely thinking about or seeing someone yawn can make you yawn (you’re probably yawning right now). Most people yawn because they’re tired, but it can also happen unexpectedly and without any triggers ...

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Simply looking at the word can stimulate a yawn. I’m actually yawning while typing this piece. Interestingly, all vertebrates — a living being with a spinal column — yawn. Vertebrates include mammals, ...

Yawning seems like such a simple act, yet it holds surprising power over us. Just watching someone yawn — even a stranger — can suddenly trigger the irresistible urge to yawn yourself. Why does this ...

EVER wondered why we yawn? Most of us might think it’s because we’re bored, but there’s a number of other theories explaining why we do it. Yawning is a natural involuntary action which involves ...

Yawning is merely one piece of a puzzle. Practically every animal with a backbone yawns and no one knows why. It could be a deep breath to recharge the lungs, a physiological pause between states ...

When your pet dog yawns after you do, it's just one more sign that man's best friend is acutely sensitive to human feelings. As researchers continue to debate the significance and origins of yawns in ...

Do you know someone who spends a long time yawning? He may not be lazy he may just have a big, neuron-rich brain. A new study published this week in Biology Letters found the amount of time it takes ...