Quantum computing has crossed a line that classical machines cannot easily follow, pushing simulations of matter and forces ...

Ever since Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed his simulation argument in 2001, the nerdiverse has attempted to assess the possibility that reality is not really real, that what we experience as ...

Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see it. This preview will help scientists ...

In 2011 the UPV/EHU's QUTIS Group published in the Physical Review Letters an innovative theoretical proposal to reproduce particle collisions like those taking place in large accelerators but without ...

For years, the idea that we might be living inside a vast computer program has drifted from philosophy seminars into ...

Cosmic doughnut: an expanding cloud of atoms bears a passing resemblance to the early universe. (Courtesy: E Edwards/JQI) Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) are formed when identical atoms with integer ...

Do we live in a simulation? This is one of those questions which has kept at least part of humanity awake at night, and which has led to a number of successful books and movies being made on the ...

Baby Steps combines physics and walking for the first-ever fully realized true immersive, and hilarious, walking simulator. Meet Nate, an unemployed failson with nothing going for him, until one day ...

Researchers have moved closer to the real-time verification of hadron therapy, demonstrating the in vivo accuracy of simulations that predict particle range in the patient. The new Monte Carlo tool is ...

In simulated operations described in Nature on 26 November 1, the slipknot technique allowed inexperienced surgeons to ...