Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Edward Segal covers crisis-related news, topics, and issues. Like pilots, some business executives are using computer simulations ...

Looking back at the history of computers, it’s hard to overestimate the rate at which computing power has scaled in the course of just a single human lifetime. But yet, existing classical computers ...

The phrase "simulation modalities" may conjure up a variety of images. For example, some nursing staff development professionals think of a sophisticated training mannequin that produces ...

Wesley Wildman is Executive Director of the Non-Profit Research Institute, the Center for Mind and Culture, Inc. (CMAC), which conducts the Modeling Religion Project. CMAC has received funding from ...

Swedish Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument says we might be living in a computer-generated reality. Maybe he’s right. There currently exists no known method by which we could investigate ...

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in diameter. By comparison, this corresponds to a 40-kilometer thread packed ...