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 ...

From a baby to an adult, and even animals, yawning is one of those things that most of us do multiple times a day, especially ...

“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 ...

There is something you do when you’re tired, aroused, bored, or even hungry, but nobody completely understands why. Get your mind out of the gutter, I’m talking about yawning. We do it every day, ...

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 ...

We do it when we're tired, when we're bored or when we're hungry; parachutists have been seen to do it before a jump, and research has even suggested a link between yawning and sexual arousal. But the ...

Johanna Simkin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

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 ...