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.

There are so many applications of generative AI dropping at the moment, it is hard to keep up. One that fascinates me is the latest wave of

Welcome to my weekly Wednesday dose of glorious geekiness to put a smile on your face and maybe make the run to the weekend a little easier.

I was recently at the awesome Beaker Street public science festival in Hobart with some Aussie legends #NerdHeaven

How many people in a group do you need to have before the probability of a shared birthday amongst them?

Get reading! There’s no time to waste. At 225 million years per rotation, the sun will only orbit the Milky Way another 22 times before...

Every four years, maths nerds, astronomers and calendrists alike get pretty excited about today's date, 29 February.

Debunking an urban myth and 21 stages of Tour de Carb - how would you eat your way through?

Kids counting down til Santa comes. Watch me in conversation with futurist Amy Webb at SXSW. And was Plato ever wrong?

Go is the most simple but strategically complex board game of them, all played on a 19x19 grid...

Plus the mathematical beauty of the James Webb telescope.

An English haiku, Has seventeen syllables, Flowing through three lines. All that and more as we go deep on the number 17...

Sixteen things you mightn't know about the Matildas' #16 Hayley Raso. Plus catch me on the ABC TV's Q+A special National Science Week...

Hanging with the stars, determining dermatoglyphics, necking a Melchizedek and books to be won. Thanks for reading my nerdy newsletter......