Yes. You’re probably going to yawn while you read this. Writing this piece, and reading research on yawning, I’ve been yawning nonstop, uncontrollably. And it's not because research on yawning is ...

“Most of us equate yawning with being tired, but studies have found that yawning could be caused by your body trying to cool your brain,” Dr. Jen Caudle tells Yahoo Life. She describes yawning as the ...

The average adult yawns about 20 times a day. But why? Surely we can’t all be that tired. The truth is, the science behind yawning is more complex than just a few hours too little sleep. Even more ...

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

It is highly contagious and very common. You can catch it at any time, and there may be nothing you can do to prevent it. Sound scary? Fortunately, it, yawning, is not too harmful...unless you are on ...

This one shouldn’t come as a surprise, but the mechanism behind a yawn might be. When we’re tired, our bodies slow down and our lungs aren’t able to breathe in as much oxygen to get to our tissues ...

Your body has millions of parts working together every second of every day. In this series, Dr. Jen Caudle, a board-certified family medicine physician and an associate professor at Rowan University ...