When 36-year-old Hayley Black from the UK woke up one morning to feed her newborn, she never imagined a simple reflex would turn into a nightmare. Mimicking her baby Amelia’s yawn, Hayley stretched, ...

Mark A. W. Andrews, associate professor of physiology and director of the Independent Study program at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, provides the following explanation. Although not ...

Italian scientists who documented humans interacting in everyday situations have found that women are more susceptible to catching the urge to yawn from others than men are. The findings, published in ...

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 ...