Is the universe real? Or are all the stars and planets (including Earth and everything and everyone on it) just simulations in some colossal video game? What sounds like a silly question is actually ...

Not to be confused with the Metaverse whatsoever, the Simulated Universe is one of Honkai: Star Rail’s many activities for earning the highly sought-after Stellar Jade resource. After all, most of us ...

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, ...

In the movie *The Martian*, the protagonist survives by growing potatoes in a small lab on Mars. Now, the once-fictional concept of "space farming" is inching closer to reality on the Moon. A research ...

Victoria LaBarre was climbing out of a canyon and into a bright, vast, seemingly lifeless landscape when she started to experience an astronaut's nightmare. "Suddenly," she said, "I couldn't breathe." ...

Pitcher Mark Prior of the Chicago Cubs threw a “simulated game” on Tuesday, his second since he injured his elbow last month. His teammate Kerry Wood is also working to recover from a recent injury; ...