Meta is offering ubergeeks eight-figure salaries to build ‘superintelligent AI’. Should we be excited, terrified - or a bit of both?

A powerful new genetic technique funded by the Gates Foundation could exterminate all mozzies. But as much as they peeve off, can we play Aero-God ... get it 😂?

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about a deep brain structure called the thalamus, giving us rare insight into consciousness itself.

80% of Gen Z would be open to marrying an AI, according to a recent article in Forbes magazine. Is this the gateway to deeper questions about machine intelligence, or merely marketing hype?

Brutal cuts to NASA’s funding – including 47% slashed from its science budget and the abrupt end of a vital alliance to find life on Mars – point to a betrayal of science and global cooperation.

Monopoly, Yahtzee, Backgammon? When I say ‘dice’ you think of little cubes numbered 1-6. But if you expand your mind and let the dice get a bit crazy, the fun really starts. Let's change the way you see dice forever!

Global headlines have been made by the birth of three pups—Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi—genetically engineered to exhibit traits of the extinct dire wolf, which vanished over 10,000 years ago. But are these pups truly members of a resurrected species, or just current day wolves with a (ethical) twist?

Fed up with rubber-tough white and chalky yolk, or a weepy undercooked mess? A team of Italian materials scientists has finally cracked the problem but their solution, published in the prestigious journal Communications Engineering, might raise a few eyebrows.

This World Quantum Day, welcome to the realm of the phenomenally small where our every intuition is shattered at the tiniest level.

From LibGen to Llama: How tech giants download pirated books to build AI models while creators go unpaid and ethical questions mount.

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.

North Korean badasses have stolen USD $2.5 billion in the largest crypto theft ever. Who is ByBit? And how good are the hackers?

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.