Physicists have spent decades arguing over whether our universe is a fundamental reality or a kind of cosmic software, and ...

Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM are all racing to build a quantum computer. But the technology's feasibility is as hazy as its physics.

Imagine Jo: Everyone in Jo's life recognizes her as an outstanding problem solver. She's the type of person who seems capable ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human. By Shafik Quoraishee Shafik Quoraishee is a machine-learning engineer ...

The FLAMINGO super simulation maps the universe from its earliest moments but finds galaxies cluster less than cosmological ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

When you're getting ready to plug an external hard drive or USB flash drive into your favorite device, you have a choice to make. That's because most computers have multiple USB ports, and despite ...

Billionaire Elon Musk, on the latest episode of Zerodha cofounder Nikhil Kamath's WTF podcast, said he believes there is a “pretty high” chance we are living in a simulation. Simulation theory ...

GCHQ, the UK’s intelligence agency, released its annual Christmas card on Wednesday, filled with puzzles and hidden codes. The spy agency's "Chief Puzzler", known as "Colin", said the notoriously ...

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...

Fans of codebreaking, maths and brainteasers can now try their hand at the latest cryptic Christmas challenge set by GCHQ, the UK's intelligence agency. GCHQ released its annual Christmas card on ...