Almost 13,000 years ago, North America underwent drastic changes at a rapid rate. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, ...

People have long asked whether the world they experience is fundamentally real or the product of a simulation, a question often framed today as the simulation hypothesis. A new paper examines a ...

Grab your pencils and paper! Escape Simulator 2 is the sequel to the popular escape room game that allows players to solve challenging puzzles alone or with friends to explore various locations and ...

A new super simulation called FLAMINGO maps the universe from its first moments to today, and it intensifies a stubborn cosmology puzzle. Even after tracking ordinary matter alongside dark matter, the ...

Deep beneath the Earth lies a mysterious and powerful force. A wellspring of nuclear energy which could one day rip us apart. Many scientists have found clues that natural nuclear reactions have ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever before. By combining Einstein’s gravity with realistic behavior of light and ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

Asmodee, distributor of many of the world's biggest board games, has acquired a 45% stake in Exploding Kittens Inc. Asmodee previously bought a 55% majority stake in the producer of party games back ...

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. President Trump started ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has captured images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as the object — perhaps the oldest ever seen by astronomers — whizzes through the inner solar system. On Nov. 6, ...