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

Comparison of simulations and experiments for AntiPhase Boundary (APB) migration and derivation of the shape coefficients. Osaka, Japan – The compound of iron and aluminum with the chemical formula Fe ...

For years, the idea that reality might be a sophisticated computer program has drifted from late-night dorm debates into mainstream culture and serious philosophy. Now a new wave of theoretical work ...

In this week's It’s Debatable article, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate whether we're all living in a computer simulation like the Matrix. Rosen retired as a professor from the Texas Tech ...

Unless you, dear reader, are a web-scraping software bot quietly pulling this text into a data-hungry LLM, you’re probably a human. And though you’ve likely never seen me in person, you have good ...

The notion that we live as characters in someone else’s video game is irresistible to many, even outside of science fiction bookshelves. Googling the term “simulation hypothesis” returns numerous ...

New psychoactive substances, originally developed as potential analgesics but abandoned due to adverse side effects, may ...