What if your reality was nothing more than a complex computer simulation? And if you were just a program on someone else’s hard drive, how would you know? The Trump administration might’ve gone one ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — New psychoactive substances, originally developed as potential analgesics but abandoned due to adverse side effects, may still have pharmaceutical value if researchers could nail ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Startup Vinci said on Tuesday it has raised $36 million to finance its business of building software that can speed chip and other hardware design by significantly ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — The YMCA of South Hampton Roads offers a free four-week Senior Fit Program that helps Chesapeake residents over 55 improve their physical and mental strength through fitness and ...

A research team at the Jülich Supercomputing Center, together with experts from NVIDIA, has set a new record in quantum simulation: for the first time, a universal quantum computer with 50 qubits has ...

A computer simulation shows how urban life has eroded our ties to the outdoors—and how we could reverse it by 2050. A new study revealed that humanity's connection to nature has declined by around 60 ...

The idea that we’re living inside a simulation, as popularized by “The Matrix” franchise, has piqued the interest of scientists for decades. In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed in a highly ...

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality itself, researchers argue. Reading time 3 minutes How do we know we’re not ...

Physicists present evidence that the universe is not a computer simulation. Credit: Amanclos / CC BY 2.0 / Flickr A team of physicists has presented new mathematical evidence that challenges the ...

The idea that we might be living inside a vast computer simulation, much like in The Matrix, has fascinated philosophers and scientists for years. But a new study from researchers at the University of ...