Few scientific ideas have leapt from philosophy seminars to dinner-table debates as quickly as the claim that our universe ...

St. Louis, MO – Virtual reality isn’t just for video games. Some nursing students in St. Louis are using it to practice high-tech training without the need for real patients. Goldfarb School of ...

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 ...

On a warm afternoon last fall, Steven Caron, a technical artist at the video-game company Quixel, stood at the edge of a redwood grove in the Oakland Hills. “Cross your eyes, kind of blur your eyes, ...

What if gravity were informed by the way matter was arranged in the universe — and a sign that we were living in a reality composed by a giant computer? In a new paper published in the journal AIP ...

A health care tool for an overlooked public health problemFear of needles is one of health care’s most common, and most ...

Anyone who’s a fan of ‘The Matrix’ might wonder whether what we see is, in fact, reality. If you get an overwhelming feeling ...

Because we in Silicon Valley are newness junkies, it can feel like an act of sabotage to have memories, but, for better or worse, I have them. It’s been more than forty years since I co-founded the ...