And then it got me.” A handful of decades and an MIT physics doctorate later, Tan is the chief science officer (CSO) of ...

Reality is stranger than you think. Seriously. While we go about our daily lives, convinced we understand the basics of ...

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

Neuralink’s Blindsight implant has received FDA breakthrough status, aiming to restore sight by stimulating the visual cortex ...

Archaeologists in Poland uncovered two massive tombs hidden within megalithic structures often referred to as “Polish ...

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

MIT researchers have designed a printable aluminum alloy that’s five times stronger than cast aluminum and holds up at ...

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

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 ...

To simulate the behavior of physical systems more accurately than ever, Kobe University YAGUCHI Takaharu and his team have developed an approach that can learn physically accurate computation methods ...

Do We Live In a Simulation? Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology. As boomers are forced ...

For decades, philosophers, technologists, and even billionaires like Elon Musk have toyed with the idea that our universe might be a highly sophisticated computer simulation. The idea represents one ...