Ever noticed how one yawn can trigger many? Science reveals how your brain copies others, why yawns spread so easily, and ...

Humans’ first experience with yawning happens in utero, says Matthew D. Epstein, M.D., associate medical director of the Atlantic Health Sleep Centers in New Jersey. Yet, Earth-side, the ...

A new paper finds that yawning is indeed contagious—and that any attempts to stifle that yawn will only make the urge even stronger. You’ve probably experienced the phenomenon yourself — you see ...

Not normal early, but Fringe Festival early. It’s like 9:30 or so, and even though I’m up, I sorta just went to bed. Ugh. I’m trying to pace myself, because I’m still less than two weeks into my ...

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, ...

Growing into a fully formed human being is a long process, and scientists have found that unborn babies not only hiccup, swallow and stretch in the womb, they yawn too. Researchers who studied 4D ...

Warning: While reading this post, you will desperately want to yawn. But you'll be too scared to do so. A boring lecture in a college class prompted a big yawn out of one of the students -- a yawn ...

Growing into a fully formed human being is a long process, and scientists have found that unborn babies not only hiccup, swallow and stretch in the womb, they yawn too. Researchers who studied 4D ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Growing into a fully formed human being is a long process, and scientists have found that unborn babies not only hiccup, swallow and stretch in the womb, they yawn too. Researchers ...