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.

On 29 June, the Large Hadron Collider smashes its last protons for four long years. NerdNews raises a glass to the 27-kilometre marvel that caught the Higgs, and peers down the tunnel at what its supercharged successor might find.

it’s time to strip down, grit your teeth, and ask the question: is jumping into freezing water actually good for you, or are we all just performing wellness theatre for Instagram?

Australia was the last continent on Earth free of the bird flu strain that has killed wildlife by the million. As of mid-June 2026, that run is over. Here is what it means, and why the sensible response might involve a human flu shot.

The claim is that a peace deal has been brokered. Truth is only time will tell. But one thing we do know. 20 years ago the US went about the whole “let’s disrupt Iran’s nuke program” a completely different way.

Why aren't we living in the metaverse?

Apple SWEARS Siri Is About to Get Smart. We've Heard This Song Before.

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

The biggest selfie ever: 47 million galaxies and a dark energy twist

An AI just knocked over a famous geometry problem!

Social channels have been abuzz with news of the movie Hell Grind premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.

The world's most prestigious medical journal just called out five everyday products driving one-third of all deaths. The list will not surprise you.

Bundibugyo ebola has no approved vaccines or antivirals. WHO's emergency call reflects complexity, not global pandemic risk.

Hantavirus is truly horrible but rare. WA’s quarantine move is not panic; it is a careful response to a low-risk, high-stakes virus.

A US Marine's Osprey crashed near Darwin. Doctors combined hyperbaric oxygen with ECMO in a world-first treatment to beat deadly fungi.

A year ago this week, three Dutch researchers calmly told us the universe will die gigantically sooner than we thought. We're still here. Just.

A Harvard illusion with 9 purple dots exposes how your fovea, yellow eye-filters and brain context warp colour perception in real time.

Naturalist, TV star, global icon. David Attenborough turns 100 on Friday.

Sam Neill is cancer-free after a CAR T-cell trial. Here's the beginner's guide to the "living drug" that pulled him back from the brink.