You know the feeling. It’s getting close to bedtime, you get sleepy, and you start yawning automatically. You may even find yourself yawning in the middle of the day in a mid-day lull. These yawns ...

Tiredness, sleep deprivation, or certain medications usually cause yawning. If you find yourself yawning much more than usual on a daily basis, there could be more than tiredness or boredom going on.

Humans aren't alone when it comes to yawning — all vertebrates do it too, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. But why? The "evolutionarily ancient" act of yawning likely serves a ...

Precious Cockatoo’s ‘Sleepy Vibes’ Have Everyone Yawning originally appeared on Parade Pets. Everyone has to sleep sometime, no matter what. Despite all of our differences, every single person in the ...

Have you ever found yourself yawning or feeling sleepy when you're around your partner and wondered if it means you're losing interest? The good news is it's quite the opposite. Feeling drowsy in the ...

Contagious yawning isn’t a myth. It’s a real, scientifically demonstrable phenomenon. We yawn when we see someone else yawn. The sound of yawning makes us yawn. The yawning contagion can even spread ...

THERE are few better ways to get a measure of changing social attitudes than to look at how stories about sex are reported. At New Scientist we have never shied away from covering such topics, but it ...