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

The origin of our Universe remains one of the greatest enigmas of science, a question that seems to defy the limits of our ...

The notion that our universe might be a giant simulation has intrigued scientists and philosophers for decades. Recent ...

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

A supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US has just pulled off the largest astrophysical simulation of the Universe accomplished to date. In November 2024, physicists used 9,000 ...

New computer simulations suggest the first magnetic fields that emerged after the Big Bang were much weaker than expected — ...

Although the magnetic field in the early universe was extremely weak, its traces still permeate the cosmic web today and can ...

“The hypothesis that we live in a simulation seems provable: it could be the discovery of a flaw in the simulation, such as a distant region of the universe that cannot be zoomed in on, where a ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

Japanese astronomers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique to remove noise in astronomical data due to random variations in galaxy shapes. After extensive training and ...

If our universe were crafted from a lattice-driven simulation, we ought to be able to find evidence of the underlying, interlacing imprint.