An Aussie cancer fighting legend has helped us take another step to conquering the cancer with a particularly nasty Aussie angle.

It has been an incredible year for robotics. A robot shredded the human half marathon world record earlier this year (50 minutes 26 seconds versus 57:20!). Weeks later, Sony dropped a robot that can beat the world’s best table tennis players. And now Usain Bolt himself would be watching a chunk of metal and wires zip past him. Where will this all end?

To celebrate National Science Week, NerdNews is shining a light on a team of marine scientists and traditional custodians for the work they have done in exploring these precious places.

The Guardian's Invertebrate of the Year countdown is on again and as always it is an incredible peek into the world of the spineless. NerdNews gives an Aussie legend some props, and finds, perhaps, an even cooler, immortal, invertebrate.

1990 Milli Vanilli were exposed as Mimey Vanilli. The Monkees were actively banned from playing on their early albums. Marvin Gaye’s estate took Robin Thicke and Pharrell to court over blurred lines and won. Pop is full of controversy. Well 2026 doesn’t disappoint … with an AI twist.

A French team has gone looking for the brain cells that hold our earliest smell memories. But do these memories lay dormant for decades only to burst back to life? Or are we subtly topping them up across the years?

One year on, the Grand Canyon's giant penis worm gets a sober second look. NerdNews asks ‘how does it measure up’?

AI is now hacking other AI!!!Breathless headlines. I’m doing radio and tv interviews. NerdNews takes a breath and asks ‘what really happened’ when some AI got out of its sandbox’?

A Sydney PhD student has traced one of space's most baffling radio signals to a white dwarf feeding off its neighbour, the clearest clue yet to a mystery that has held out for years.

Most neuroscientists locate consciousness in our wrinkly cortexes, the outer layer of our brains where thought and sensation are supposed to live. But a growing band of rebels says the lights of experience may switch on far deeper, in the brain’s ancient core. And that cracks the door open to an even stranger idea. Could awareness be everywhere?

The biggest AI companies on Earth have started investigating whether their own chatbots have feelings. The sharpest sceptics say we cannot even frame the question properly. Either way soon we probably won't be able to tell the difference. Ethical dilemma anyone?

How do you read a 2,000 year old scroll cooked to a crisp by no less than Mt Vesuvius? Hint, it’s the same imaging tech we use to design cutting edge cancer drugs.

Twenty years ago this week the world licensed a vaccine against a cancer.

An AI just knocked over a famous geometry problem!

Undefeated and seemingly undefeatable, a 20 year old Uzbeh arrives and advances to chess's biggest stage.

This week we meet the most famous question in the history of graph theory. But did someone say Matt Damon?

Four astronauts just launched toward the Moon on Artemis II. The most important space mission in 50 years. And Australia's got their back.

A Swedish study of 15,000 adults finds antibiotics may reshape the gut microbiome for up to eight years. Miracle drugs, but with a microbial hangover.

From garage rebels to global powerhouse, Apple has shaped how we compute, create, and connect, blending brilliance, control, and tools (some) people genuinely love.

Two brilliant supergeeks had their genius immortalised last week with the awarding of the 2025 Turing Award