Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, for IceCube: 5,160 light sensors frozen into a cubic km of Antarctic ice that caught the first high-energy neutrinos from deep space.

A researcher dreamt up an eight-faced shape with three holes, where every face touches every other face. Now he has the numbers to prove it’s real.

If Tuesday’s cute little newest cat ever discovered wasn’t geekily gorgeous enough for you, how about the youngest planet we’ve ever seen. Just look at its chubby cheeks! Who’s. beautiful bubba?

Researchers discover in Bolivia the first new cat species in over a century. And the story of how they found it is as cute as the cat itself.

Animal experimentation and organ transplant waiting lists are issues replete with ethical challenges and real suffering. Could we one day grow and harvest purpose built fully functioning organs? What about your own personal headless human body as a spare parts depot?

Neutrinos are fascinating particles. More than a trillion a second flood through your body, but science has only ever caught a sliver of them. Well now a sphere holding 20,000 tonnes of liquid, buried under southern China, has out-measured every previous experiment combined. It is one of physics’ oldest puzzles. Do these ghosts weigh anything, and how would we ever find out?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Chinese surgeons have taken a landmark step toward a world where we tackle the chronic global shortage in human organs … with our porkiest friends!

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.

An incredibly lucky find of an incredibly rarely seen particle sheds light on deep cosmological questions.