A scientist proposes a new law of physics suggesting the universe may be a digital simulation, linking physics, biology, and ...

Do We Live In a Simulation? Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology.

Are we inhabitants of a computational construct rather than a mind-independent, “base” reality? The simulation question ...

Information could become the fifth state of matter alongside gas, plasma, liquid, and solid states. A scientist has proposed ...

Some scientists argue that mathematically it’s far more likely we live in a computer simulation than base reality.

In this week's It’s Debatable article, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate whether we're all living in a computer simulation like the Matrix. Rosen retired as a professor from the Texas Tech ...

Now and then, you come across something so strange, so perfectly offbeat, that it makes you pause and wonder if reality is as solid as it seems. Maybe it’s someone who looks exactly like the person ...