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

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

The U.S. military will stop its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for treating wounded troops in a ...

The U.S. military will stop its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for treating wounded troops in a ...

The big thinkers at Aperture examine arguments for and against the universe being a simulation. Boy’s face lights up after ...

The long-debated idea that we might all be living in a computer simulation—popularized by science fiction films like The Matrix—has taken a major hit. A new study from researchers at the University of ...

It might not be enough for humans to create superintelligence — we could also need to make sure that it is compatible with other kinds of superintelligences. That’s the provocative argument from Nick ...