Few scientific ideas have leapt from philosophy seminars to dinner-table debates as quickly as the claim that our universe might be an artificial construct. The simulation hypothesis promises a ...

Gravity used to be the most down-to-earth of ideas, the thing that kept apples falling and planets in line. Now a growing group of physicists is treating it as a possible glitch report from the fabric ...

El Capitan, the world’s fastest supercomputer, is allowing scientists to explore physical systems in ways that weren’t previously possible, according to an article from Lawrence Livermore National ...