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.

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using ...

How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence ...

Up until now, the simulation hypothesis was deemed to be un-testable in philosophy and science and often dismissed as pure ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...

When we ask, as humanity does through eternity, whether light can return after darkness, perhaps the answer is already within us. For the Divine, too, whispers across ages: let there be light. This is ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.