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,” ...

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 ...

NORTH ADAMS — Go ahead, yawn. According to a recent study conducted by the University at Albany psychology department, yawning is not a contagious symptom of boredom or fatigue. In fact, its purpose ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Consider the exploits of Frenchman Joseph Pujol, history’s most melodic master of flatulence. Early in life, in the 1860s, he discovered a rare ability to draw air into his rectum—to use as an organ ...

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 ...