A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

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Gravity used to be the most down-to-earth of ideas, the thing that kept apples falling and planets in line. Now a growing ...

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The Beijing-based AI-for-Science firm said the Series C round would fund hiring and R&D, as interest grows in using AI to ...

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Physicists discovered that the famous ‘Star Trek’ spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

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