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

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 ...

Scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the world's fastest supercomputer, Frontier, to create the largest astrophysical simulation of the universe ever made, named ExaSky. The simulation ...

A projection through a 130 million light years thick slice through a simulation of a cubic volume of 9,132 million light years on a side. The luminosity of the background image gives the cold dark ...