A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

The idea that the universe itself might be intelligent sounds like science fiction, yet a growing group of researchers is ...

Artificial intelligence is getting very good, very fast. Whether it's music, text, code or imagery, the time when it was reliably possible to tell the difference between AI and human outputs is ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

"We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity," says Dr. Faizal. "Therefore, no physically complete and ...

Consistently ranked among the top by U.S. News & World Report, the online Master of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering offers engineering professionals flexibility without sacrificing ...

From powering search engines to securing data and optimizing networks, algorithms underpin nearly every aspect of modern technology. Understanding how efficiently they can solve problems — and where ...

Human-AI interactions are well understood in terms of trust and companionship. However, the role of attachment and experiences in such relationships is not entirely clear. In a new breakthrough, ...

With the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., brain worms have gotten a bad rap. A year ago, the long-time anti-vaccine advocate and current US health secretary famously told The New York Times that a ...

Germ theory is the idea that pathogens can invade the human body and cause disease — and it wasn't always accepted. Evidence for germ theory accumulated over time, and as it did, it butted against ...

Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction. Dr. Melvin ...