Research from Binghamton University shows there are a whole host of reasons why we yawn, but primarily it is to control the brain’s temperature, Discovery News reported. “Brains are like computers,” ...

Scientists say they’ve found an infection more likely to strike women than men: the yawn. Many of us have felt that irresistible urge to yawn after seeing a colleague or buddy yawn. Though the reasons ...

Sleepyheads take note — a UA researcher may have helped discover the cause behind yawning. Omar Eldakar, a postdoctoral fellow in the UA Center for Insect Science, and Andrew Gallup, a postdoctoral ...

It's happened to all of us: You're with a group of people and someone opens their mouth wide, squints their eyes and lets out a long sigh. All of a sudden, you're doing the exact same thing. Yawning ...

Warning: This story may make you yawn. That's because yawning is so highly contagious that even reading about it, much less seeing or hearing someone yawn, is enough to get many people going. Why?

People yawn because they're tired, bored or nervous, but sometimes they yawn just because they've seen someone else do it. This behavior, contagious yawning, has now been documented for the first time ...

Think about yawning. Yawn yawn yawn... yawn. Have you yawned yet? If so, it's probably because you come from a social species. Contagious yawning, unlike spontaneous yawning (the purpose of which ...

Yawning. We all do it and yet there's no set explanation on why we do it. And just as mysterious is that the act of yawning seems to be contagious. A new study looking at that issue has found that age ...

The idea that yawning is contagious is nothing new, however researchers from Duke University are now finding out more about the phenomenon as they observed that contagious yawning decreases with age.

Yawn next to your dog, and it may do the same. Though it seems simple, this contagious behavior is actually quite remarkable: Only a few animals do it, and only dogs cross the species barrier. Now a ...