For a quarter century, cosmologists have treated dark energy as a fixed, featureless pressure that steadily drives galaxies ...

Augmented Physics: This web-based tool uses machine learning to create interactive physics simulations from textbook diagrams. By semi-automatically extracting content, users can embed dynamic, ...

Computer simulations by astronomers support the idea that dark matter -- matter that no one has yet directly detected but which many physicists think must be there to explain several aspects of the ...

Quantum physics has a reputation for needing exotic hardware, from liquid-helium-cooled qubits to sprawling AI clusters, just ...

The simulated universe theory implies that our universe, with all its galaxies, planets and life forms, is a meticulously programmed computer simulation. In this scenario, the physical laws governing ...

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

Not even the most advanced physics can reveal everything we want to know about the history and future of the cosmos, or about ourselves. An infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

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