A $1 million prize awaits anyone who can show where the math of fluid flow breaks down. With specially trained AI systems, ...

The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals ...

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Neuromorphic computers, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are proving surprisingly adept at solving complex ...

An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwaves – on specific companies ...

Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

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

Advanced computer models can quantify the impacts of climate change and other environmental challenges, providing deep ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists showed that it’s possible to reproduce an entire cerebral cortex inside one of the world’s fastest computers. The model represents the ...

Spaceflight is becoming safer, more frequent, and more sustainable thanks to the largest computational fluid flow simulation ever ran on Earth. Inspired by SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster, a team led by ...

Europe’s first exascale supercomputer has just smashed a global quantum benchmark, simulating a full 50-qubit universal quantum computer for the first time. The feat pushes classical computing to its ...

Researchers say it's impossible to use algorithmic computation to generate everything in our universe. The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than ...