The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

That hypothesis, famously probed in the 1999 film The Matrix, is the subject of a new book by Rizwan Virk, a computer scientist and video game developer who leads Play Labs at the Massachusetts ...

Physicists have spent decades arguing over whether our universe is a fundamental reality or a kind of cosmic software, and ...

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What if we are merely part of an experiment by an advanced civilization? To the Editor: Re “Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?,” by Preston Greene (Sunday Review, Aug. 11): Let me get this ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have built what they claim is the most accurate simulation of a functioning brain to date. Despite a seemingly unimpressive count of only 2.5 million neurons, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The popular film trilogy, The Matrix, presented a cyberuniverse where humans live in a simulated ...

Some people fear we humans are nothing more than pickled brains floating in a glass bowl as we're fed a false version of reality through a bundle of wires. Now a team of scientists at Oxford ...

This amazing 3D map was developed by a team from Durham University in England, revealing the correct locations and properties of local group galaxies. Using a supercomputer, the simulation was ...

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Antifreeze proteins (AFPs), which are present in the bodily fluids of organisms inhabiting cold environments, function as inhibitors of ice growth by binding to certain planes of ice crystals. However ...