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, ...

Stretching and yawning may seem like simple, involuntary actions, but they play a crucial role in maintaining overall ...

PHILADELPHIA - Think about someone yawning. Jaws gape. Arms stretch. There's that quick inhale and the long aaaahhhhh. Yawning yet? Yes? Don't worry. According to a new Drexel University study, you're ...

Is it true that we yawn when our brains are deprived of oxygen? Most of us can feel a yawn coming on. The muscles in our jaw begin to tighten, our nostrils might flare, and our eyes might tear up as ...

Humans’ first experience with yawning happens in utero, says Matthew D. Epstein, M.D., associate medical director of the Atlantic Health Sleep Centers in New Jersey. Yet, Earth-side, the ...

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 ...

A woman claimed that she almost died after she yawned too hard one morning. She said that she saw her newborn daughter yawn and went to do the same, but felt an “electric shock sensation” go through ...

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 ...

Robert Provine had this deliciously dangerous idea. The professor of psychology at the University of Maryland remembered the famous Monty Python sketch about a joke so funny that it killed anyone who ...