Yawning can help the flow of cerebrospinal fluid and venous blood flow, suggesting a regulation of neurofluids and increase ...

In a new study, yawning has been shown to push the brain’s clear fluid in the opposite direction of a deep breath.

Yawning has long been dismissed as a sign of boredom or fatigue, a social cue we mostly try to suppress in meetings and on video calls. New brain imaging work suggests that instinct is misplaced. When ...

Dirty snow is the fucking worst. Get that shit out of here. Snow falls, and it’s beautiful and pristine and magical for three, maybe four hours. Then it all gets shoved into piles and ...

Watching someone else yawn can be a one-way ticket to doing the same. Now, research finds that the same is true for dogs — but not puppies. In fact, dogs become more susceptible to the contagion of ...

Dogs catch yawns from their sound alone, new research indicates. They also catch their owner's yawns easier than those from others, supporting the theory that contagious yawns are empathy-based and ...

Call me oblivious, but I never realized yawns are contagious until my best friend clued me in toward the end of high school. I was in the middle of trying my absolute hardest to keep my mouth shut in ...

Dogs can catch yawns from humans, regardless of whether they are familiar with the person, according to a study. The authors of the paper say their findings question the idea that contagious yawning ...

Scientists who prevented people from catching yawns in a study believe the reflex helps to cool down the brain. The study, published in the journal Physiology & Behavior, involved 92 undergraduate ...