A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.
Ripples spreading across a calm lake after raindrops fall—and the way ripples from different drops overlap and travel outward ...
And then it got me.” A handful of decades and an MIT physics doctorate later, Tan is the chief science officer (CSO) of ...
When electricity or fuel powers a machine, the machine gets hotter. Finding new ways to cool machines quickly and ...
A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered ...
The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...
An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwaves – on specific companies ...
For a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship project, Carnegie Mellon University sophomore Jasmine Li worked with robotic arms in the Robotic Caregiving and Human Interaction Lab to analyze the ...
National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...