Physicists have spent decades arguing over whether our universe is a fundamental reality or a kind of cosmic software, and ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

Robert Lempert, a RAND researcher who lost his home in the Palisades fire, hopes to use computer simulations, and his ...

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Computer simulations and artificial intelligence often make significant errors when predicting the properties of new, high-performance materials, according to a new international study led by the ...

New psychoactive substances, originally developed as potential analgesics but abandoned due to adverse side effects, may ...

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 ...

In this visualization, each dot represents a gas parcel with a mass approximately 1,000 times that of the Sun in the simulation of the cosmic Dark Ages. The left and right panels compare the cold and ...

Computational Chemistry is the study of complex chemical problems using a combination of computer simulations, chemistry theory and information science. Also called cheminformatics, this field enables ...

$20M in Series A funding from BMW i Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures and Earlybird Venture Capital will be used to bring simulation best practices from the world's top companies to design engineers ...