Yawning, a general indication of sleepiness or boredom can actually serve as an indicator of underlying health problems. While it's easy to link yawns to late nights and early mornings, professionals ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered why yawning is contagious? It may be a way to bond with your fellow human being, but scientists have other theories. We’re one sentence into this story and I’ve already yawned ...

Ever notice how you automatically yawn when someone else does it? That involuntary mouth-stretching moment isn’t just your brain being lazy. It’s actually broadcasting something pretty revealing about ...

Experts discuss the mysteries of yawning at first ever international conference. —LONDON, June 28, 2010 -- For two days last week, they came to Paris. Over two dozen experts in the field of ...

Yawning is a phenomenon that has been observed in humans and animals, and, despite its prevalence, it remains poorly understood in humans. Yawning happens reflexively. When you yawn, you take in a ...