Robert Lempert, a RAND researcher who lost his home in the Palisades fire, hopes to use computer simulations, and his ...

Physicists have spent decades arguing over whether our universe is a fundamental reality or a kind of cosmic software, and ...

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 ...

Zen Technologies spent years training soldiers when nobody cared. Now, as warfare turns digital and drones redefine dangers, ...

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

For years, the idea that reality might be a sophisticated computer program has drifted from late-night dorm debates into mainstream culture and serious philosophy. Now a new wave of theoretical work ...

Up to 65 percent of our daily behaviors occur habitually—but how habits form remains difficult for researchers to understand and measure. Virtual reality could change that.

Simulation finds quarantining is most effective in controlling human spread as long as it is done when number of infected people is as low as two ...

After decades of steady progress, computational astrophysicists have reached a major turning point in black hole research. A new study presents the ...

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 ...