Science Focus

Your reality really could be a simulation, say experts. Here’s why

To simulate the Earth, he suggests that it would be necessary to convert the entire stellar mass of a globular cluster into ...

Quantum computer accurately simulates real magnetic materials, reproducing national laboratory data

Studying and designing novel materials is a central application of quantum mechanics. Chemists, materials scientists, and ...
Nature

Quantum simulations verified by experiments for the first time

The hope for quantum computers is that the devices will be able to solve complex tasks such as predicting how chemicals react or cracking encrypted text. One of the main reasons that the machines are ...

Supercomputer simulations map spliceosome motions in a two-million-atom human cell model

A new study from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), in collaboration with Uppsala University (Sweden) and AstraZeneca, shows how computational chemistry and supercomputers can help scientists ...
The Guardian

A petri dish of human brain cells is currently playing Doom. Should we be worried?

Scientists in the US have uploaded a fruit fly to a computer simulation, while an Australian lab has taught neurons on a glass chip to play a 90s video game. How long before we are all living in a sci ...
Scary Mysteries on MSNOpinion

What if none of this is real? The theory that says we’re living in a simulation

What if reality is not reality at all, but a simulation so advanced that no one inside it could ever tell the difference?
Nanowerk

First computer simulation that captures every molecule in a living cell through its full life cycle (w/video)

(Nanowerk News) By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell — from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division — scientists have opened a new frontier of ...
New Scientist

How geophysicists are reverse engineering the Earth

Visualising the hidden structures beneath our feet requires vast seismic datasets, advanced imaging algorithms and deep ...
Computer Weekly

UK Atomic Energy Authority readies fusion simulation AI supercomputer

As part of its 50 point artificial intelligence (AI) opportunities action plan, the UK government announced that the country’s first AI supercomputer is being established to support Culham Campus in ...
ZME Science

Engineers Propose a Fourth Traffic Light Meant for Intersections with Self-Driving Cars

That is the vision behind a radical new proposal from transportation engineers at North Carolina State University. They want ...
Sportskeeda

"It was a double-slit experiment": Elon Musk responds to post exploring whether we live in a simulation that renders itself when we perceive it

Elon Musk has once again sparked discussion around simulation theory after responding to a post linking quantum physics concepts to the idea that reality may “render” itself only when observed. In a ...
Nature

‘Virtual cell’ captures the most-basic process of life: bacterial division

For the first time, researchers have simulated the full workings of a bacterial cell as it copies its DNA and divides into two. The experiment could help researchers to understand how the interactions ...