The exact causes of contagious yawning are still debated, but two leading hypotheses are the nonconscious mimicry hypothesis ...

Experts confirm this, but it turns out that these are not the only causes of yawning. Often, yawning can be a signal. Surprisingly, a person yawning next to you who is nice to you will cause an ...

Lung hyperinflation and less yawning are among the physical changes that can accompany COPD, columnist Caroline Gainer writes ...

But this thinking is pretty strict, and often requires that you also abstain from caffeine for up to 10 hours before bedtime ...

Humans aren't alone when it comes to yawning — all vertebrates do it too, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. But why? The "evolutionarily ancient" act of yawning likely ...

The male lion known as "Makulu" from the Mapogo coalition stretching his jaw muscles.Filmed in the Sabi Sand Wildtuin, Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa Subscribe:​ ​ ​| Merch: ​ Watch the ...

Brits have been forced to stifle a yawn in a work meeting, when listening to a friend tell a story – and in a job interview. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Mansfield and Ashfield Chad, ...

Shouldn’t I be the last person yawning? And so, thinking of some Chad science a trainer once told me—that how you feel during the day is a result of what you did the past three days—I ...

DEJA VU — A year ago, Gov. Maura Healey delivered her first State of the Commonwealth speech amid a period of fiscal ...

Oscitancy — the act of gaping or yawning. (Yawning is so contagious that research has shown that you don’t even need to see another person yawn to yawn yourself. All it may take is hearing a ...