Gravity used to be the most down-to-earth of ideas, the thing that kept apples falling and planets in line. Now a growing ...

FLAMINGO simulation maps the universe but reveals a puzzling mismatch: galaxies cluster less than theory predicts.

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

The big thinkers at Aperture examine arguments for and against the universe being a simulation. President Trump signs ...

The Arctic Eggs developers are back with About Fishing, a surreal fishing game that's equal parts Dreamcast and David Lynch.

The artist’s sentient autonomous cars are endowed with intelligence but stripped of agency, drifting through a ruined society ...

Recent observational breakthroughs are beginning to challenge the long-standing view of dark energy as unchanging. Data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument ( DESI ), an advanced survey ...

Elon Musk has sparked fresh debate by suggesting that we might be living in a simulation. The tech billionaire’s remarks reignite discussions about the nature of reality, artificial intelligence, and ...

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel sits down with Eliot Higgins, founder of the open-source investigative collective Bellingcat, to examine how our public sphere slid from healthy debate ...