An incredibly lucky find of an incredibly rarely seen particle sheds light on deep cosmological questions.

As always, people are divided. Some laud its metafictional genius. Others call it pastiche garbage. Nerd News invites you to be the judge.

14 March is both Albert Einstein’s birthday and a day for maths nerds to celebrate the glory of π. Let’s get our geek on double time!

Open AI’s Deep Research is like a specialised assistant who can analyse texts, write reports and identify knowledge gaps in c. 30 minutes.

Two Aussie geeks have confirmed what we've long suspected about monkeys and Shakespeare.

Beneath the romance, there’s a hidden world - from the geometry of love to evolutionary biology.

Scientists discover asteroid on potential collision course to Earth - and the doomsday gears start turning.

A global stock market shock caused by a Chinese AI company that didn’t exist 18 months ago...

While I’m not big on publicly sharing my birthday, I love the dynamic mathematical subbranch of birthday logic puzzles.

Instead of saying, “Have a happy 2025”, why not really nerd it up and say, "Have a happy 45²!"

A bit of Christmas Calculus to get the blood pumping!

Controversial legislation reflects a growing concern and has sparked a global debate. What does it mean and why does it matter?

Increasing concerns about their rapacious hunger for electricity to power them and water to stop them overheating.

For millions of chess nerds like myself, this is a massive week.

Solve this classic maths brainbuster to win a signed copy of one of my maths books.

Amateur mathematician discovers new monstrously large prime number over 41 million digits!

It's the gold-medal geekery of October - the Nobel Prizes and (almost as) prestigious Australian Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science.

Most of us know that our mobile phones can be bad for our health. But what about the bugs inhabiting the surface of your phone?!

Every time you connect your AirPods to your phone, you're engaging with a fragment of ancient Viking language.

AI that can turn text into a conversation - basically creating a bespoke podcast.