What if the classic late 90s sci-fi flick The Matrix actually had it right? What if we're all just living inside of a computer simulation? That's the idea behind a 2003 paper by Nick Bostrom, a ...

Some say the odds are good that we're living in a computer simulation, and a few researchers think they might know how to find out the truth. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and ...

According to Dr. Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor at UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, and his international ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

The long-debated idea that we might all be living in a computer simulation—popularized by science fiction films like The Matrix—has taken a major hit.

What do encrypted messages, recognizing speech commands and running simulations to predict the weather have in common? They all rely on matrix multiplication for accurate calculations. DeepMind, an ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

A new computer language for modeling biological phenomenon can "think" like cells and molecular mechanisms think, thereby simulating the dynamics of biological phenomenon. Through incorporating basic ...

In 1999, the Wachowskis released the first movie in an epic sci-fi trilogy: The Matrix. Our world — if it’s really our world —has never been the same since. The Matrix keenly foresaw the debates ...