Information could become the fifth state of matter alongside gas, plasma, liquid, and solid states. A scientist has proposed an experiment involving particle annihilation that could establish that ...

In fact, the Euclid Consortium, the international group managing the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, just ...

Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction. Dr. Melvin ...

Many philosophers and scientists have pondered if we live in a simulated universe, and University of Portsmouth scientist Melvin Vopson believes he has evidence. Using his previously formulated Second ...

You`re walking down the street and suddenly feel like you’ve been there before. A strange déjà vu. The same faces. The same breeze. The same billboard. You blink, and it passes. Coincidence? Maybe. Or ...

If ultimately true, the universe will reach its maximum size around 11 billion years from now. At that point, physics (and ...

The development of Flagship 2 is anchored in cutting-edge technology and scientific collaboration. Astrophysicist Joachim Stadel from the University of Zurich (UZH) spearheaded the creation of this ...

Much like Neo in The Matrix, one computer scientist explores how humanity could hack its way out of its own simulation.

File this one under "fun to think about, probably not changing your day job": a new study just dropped that suggests gravity itself might be the smoking gun that our entire universe is one big ...

I’ve started making my way (skeptically) through Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind, and at the recommendation of a friend, I’ve also started keeping tabs on KurzweilAI, a Kurzweil-blessed site ...