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

Undergraduate science labs were once pretty predictable—pulleys and circuits, rocks and minerals, titrations and unknowns, bacterial brews and pickled piglets. But today’s science lab student, in one ...

The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals ...

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In the interconnected world of big data, it’s no secret the field of computer science is booming. At Northwestern, the number of computer science majors has grown more than 600 percent since 2011, ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Five years after Northeastern University’s Center for Inclusive Computing was founded, the center ...

Let's say we build some ridiculous planet-sized computer — one so powerful it could simulate our entire universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization's supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically ...

Mary Theresa Muldoon wants to be a teacher, not a movie or television star. Just the same, Muldoon and four other aspiring science educators pursuing master’s degrees at SUNY Cortland recently went on ...