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

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

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true. Suppose ...

The visible cosmos may contain roughly 6 x 10^80 — or 600 million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion — bits of information, according to a new estimate. The findings could have ...

We see countless stars and galaxies sparkling in the universe today, but how much matter is actually there? The question is simple enough — its answer, however, is turning out to be quite a ...

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

File this one under "fun to think about, probably not changing your day job": a new study just dropped that suggests gravity itself might be the smoking gun that our entire universe is one big ...

Many philosophers and scientists have pondered if we live in a simulated universe, and University of Portsmouth scientist ...

A sample of simulations showing a model of the expanding universe (left) and a zoomed-in view of tracer particles (right). Image: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S Dept of Energy Last month, a team of ...

If you feel like you're living in a convincing virtual reality akin to The Matrix, a scientist thinks you may well be right. Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of ...

I’ve started making my way (skeptically) through Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind, and at the recommendation of a friend, I’ve also started keeping tabs on KurzweilAI, a Kurzweil-blessed site ...

Swedish Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument says we might be living in a computer-generated reality. Maybe he’s right. There currently exists no known method by which we could investigate ...