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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The heart of the Midwest is becoming the hub of activity in a new computer research project that benefits education, research and industry around the globe. The Purdue ...

Gravity used to be the most down-to-earth of ideas, the thing that kept apples falling and planets in line. Now a growing ...

Imagine you are a newly promoted principal, replacing a principal who’d left the job after only one year. Right before your first staff meeting you are confronted with a challenge with which you have ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (May 19, 2015) -- With the steady increase in computing power, engineers are able to improve lethality with sophisticated computer models by eliminating unworkable designs.

The Computer History Museum wanted to show the life and death impact software can have on the world and chose to illustrate that with a display dedicated to automobile crash testing. On Saturday, the ...

Ariela Hernandez, a middle-aged woman, visited the doctor’s office, light-headed and coughing. She blinked and her chest rose and fell as she breathed. But Hernandez wasn’t a real patient — just a ...

Elon Musk and others find it plausible that our experiences result from events in a computer simulation, just like the characters in the Matrix movies. An alternative view, supported by both common ...