The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered ...

Dr Baek Jin Eon, 31, a research fellow at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, has demonstrated that no shape larger than ...

Gravity used to be the most down-to-earth of ideas, the thing that kept apples falling and planets in line. Now a growing ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

Heading into Week 16, only two playoff spots had been clinched in the NFL, but that number has now shot up to 10, which means ...

Researchers at the University of Cologne use simulations to investigate the likelihood of interactions between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans on the Iberian Peninsula / publication in ...

The Baltimore Sun considered a few outstanding scenarios that raise the question: can humanity survive long enough to figure ...

A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to design metasurfaces, a class of engineered ...