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Bats often hang upside down when they sleep instead of sitting right side up or lying down — why?

Think you know everything about Neanderthals? Take our quiz to find out.

A new study shows that large language models make trade-offs to avoid pain, with possible implications for future AI welfare.

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence

We know very little about some parts of Earth's atmosphere.

A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic landscapes and climate change.

Giant phantom jellies were discovered in 1899 and since then have only been spotted around 120 times.

A coin hoard dating to the 15th century has been discovered near a medieval synagogue in Israel. Why it was deposited there, however, is a mystery.

Organisms from three different natural kingdoms battle it out for the title "deadliest food."

Science news this week Jan. 25, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Recurring dreams may feature taking a test the dreamer didn’t study for, having to make a speech or being attacked. Here's why our sleeping brain comes back to these unpleasant dreams again and again

DeepSeek-R1, a new reasoning model made by Chinese researchers, completes tasks with a comparable proficiency to OpenAI's o1 at a fraction of the cost.

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon dioxide.

A study suggests that catching COVID-19 significantly raises the risk of developing ME/CFS (formerly called "chronic fatigue syndrome"), a typically lifelong condition that can be debilitating.

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as researchers previously assumed due to an abundance of fossils in places like Argentina and Zimbabwe.

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even better view arrives in February and March. Here's what you need to know.

The seven-part series exploring the rich wildlife of Asia is coming to the US – here's how to watch Asia with David Attenborough online and on TV.

Scientists say AI has crossed a critical 'red line' after demonstrating how two popular large language models could clone themselves.

The Pamukkale travertines are limestone slopes and thermal water pools that have attracted visitors since before the days of Ancient Greece, when the spa town of Hierapolis was founded at the top.