The Lumina Project spans 2 billion years and will allow scientists to test theories and predictions about the origins of the ...

Some physicists compare the Planck length—the smallest meaningful scale we know—to tiny “pixels” that could form the fabric ...

Lithium-ion batteries have quietly become the workhorses of the modern energy economy. Since their commercial debut in 1991, ...

Researchers have released CSOMA, an open-source MATLAB toolkit that uses a competition-based swarm algorithm to solve ...

Children will deploy all sorts of tactics to avoid going to bed. Catherine Heymans’s youngest had a canny one: to distract his mum, an astronomer at the University of Edinburgh, UK, he asked her meaty ...

As investment in Physical AI accelerates, simulation is taking on a much larger role than simply generating synthetic training data. HPC-based physics simulation is increasingly being used to improve ...

Do you remember Darth Vader's Star Wars quote as, “Luke, I am your father”? Or perhaps you recall The Berenstein Bears books from your childhood? If either rings true, then you’re experiencing The ...

As I mention often on this blog, I have a great interest in the universe—astrophysics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, all that stuff. With that, I’m no expert in any of it. I just enjoy reading and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. Apr 15, 2026, 02:43pm EDT This voice experience is generated by ...

How do you know anything is real? Some things you can see directly, like your fingers. Other things, like your chin, you need a mirror or a camera to see. Other things can’t be seen, but you believe ...

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 ...