A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

Cosmology is already a complicated field of study, so switching up the variables is extra rough.

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Michel Talagrand of France has credited a brush with blindness for leading to the work that resulted in his recognition by the math equivalent of the Nobel Prize. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang has ...

Controversial research suggests the Big Bang may be a myth due to its reliance on the Doppler effect theory. This idea says the universe is neither expanding, nor contracting; instead it is steady, ...

PROPERLY speaking, “The Virgin and the Gip-sy,” the posthumous book by D. H. Lawrence, is not a full-structure novel. It is a sketch, complete in form arid plot, but wanting in detail and substance; ...

When people talk about consciousness, or the mind, it’s always a bit nebulous. Whether we create consciousness in our brains as a function of our neurons firing, or consciousness exists independently ...