The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality itself, researchers argue.

The experiment at CERN produced pairs of electron and positron beams, propagating into an ambient plasma. The international team of researchers found that the beams were narrow and nearly parallel, ...

A 2023 analysis weighed this hypothesis against alternatives like giant impacts. A new supercomputer simulation from November ...

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.

Up until now, the simulation hypothesis, which has occasionally received backing from the likes of Elon Musk and Neil ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the dreams of science fiction enthusiasts when he began to study the limits of ...

A scientific study disproves the idea that the universe is a computer simulation, proving reality cannot be reproduced by algorithms.

It’s a popular example of the “Mandela effect,” or a collective false memory. And while some people may laugh and move on, ...

Uncover the mystery of the gamma ray glow at the Milky Way's center. New simulations suggest dark matter collisions could ...

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman have warned on social media in recent weeks of the “Dead Internet Theory,” an idea that the internet is dominated by bot activity ...