Microsoft's AI CEO warns of mass automation of white-collar tasks. Anthropic's workplace AI plugins spark a $285 billion stock market crash. Are we hearing canaries in the coal mine for entry-level jobs?

9 year old Polish wunderkind Teodor Zajder has smashed the Rubik's cube world record, solving a scrambled cube in … get this … just 2.766 seconds. Yes that's not a misprint. The 3 second barrier has been shattered.

Sneaky Russian Luch satellite blows apart in "safe" graveyard orbit. If even retirement homes explode, our orbital future gets shaky. Wake-up call?

Every time you see the colour purple, your brain is executing a gorgeous hack of your visual system.

Australia approves purple GMO tomatoes, that may help heart and brain health. But would you eat one?

AI could help teachers and students, but rushed adoption risks weaker learning, education inequality and tech shaping classrooms for profit.

South Korean cops seized millions in Bitcoin from criminals. Criminals stole it from them!

Philosopher Ned Block and physicist Sean Carroll debate whether AI can ever be conscious or if minds require meat-based biology.

Jacob Hanna’s team grows embryo-like structures from stem cells, questioning the origins of life and starting an ethical storm.

A huge US study finds life satisfaction rises with free time but then drops sharply when free time becomes excessive.

Wild chimps get up to 14g ethanol per day from fruit, the equivalent of a stubby of VB or a margarita. Drunkie monkey? Not really.

Octopuses fall for the human “rubber hand illusion”, suggesting you don’t need a central brain to feel what’s yours.

Google’s Willow chip just solved a molecular problem 13,000 times faster than the world’s top supercomputer. Quantum finally delivers real-world impact.

Scientists tricked human eyes into seeing a new colour — “olo.” It lives between red and green, where biology says no colour should exist.

DeepMind shows how to convert immunotherapy-resistant “cold” tumours into “hot” ones. Not ChatGPT; this is an old school gangsta flex.

Brain scans reveal optimists share similar neural patterns when imagining the future, but pessimists seem unique.

TikTok’s own highly protected data shows it takes just 260 videos, about 35 minutes, to form a usage habit. The Washington Post confirmed it with 15 million swipes.

For the first time, global renewables have overtaken coal—a messy picture, but a milestone to celebrate.

A great day for Australian science and Australia as a whole as Richard Robson wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. But what does this have to do with Harry Potter and handbags? Find out in a special #NerdNews

HSBC claims quantum computers improved bond trade predictions by 34% in lab trials. Proponents are bullish, but stress results aren’t from live trading.