In classic blockbuster film 'The Matrix', humans are enslaved by AI because it wants our body heat to power its computers. While this sounds straight from the annuls of sci-fi, a physics professor ...

If you feel like you're living in a convincing virtual reality akin to The Matrix, a scientist thinks you may well be right. Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of ...

The popularity of this hypothesis in cultural, philosophical, and scholarly discourses raises concerns, voiced by Nathan J. Robinson and Justin E.H. Smith. Indeed, thinking that we are living in a ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

Computational Chemistry is the study of complex chemical problems using a combination of computer simulations, chemistry theory and information science. Also called cheminformatics, this field enables ...

The simulations will be used by astronomers to test the standard model of cosmology. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The world's ...

The center will unite mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists at Brown, NYU and Georgia Tech to tackle longstanding ...

FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. — For the past few years, the U.S. Army has transitioned training priorities to focus on large-scale combat operations against what is known as near-peer advisories, a ...

Elisa Passini, Blanca Rodriguez and Patricia Benito think computers are now much better for testing new heart drugs on than animals. Safety is imperative before new medicines are given to patients, ...

A new computer simulation investigating the extinction of the dinosaurs has found that it wasn’t dust that killed the prehistoric animals, but sulphuric acid and extreme cold. Although we have known ...