Drawing on Mandrake, Tennyson, Baudrillard and Jonathan Haidt, this essay examines how social media produces parallel selves, erodes attention, and reshapes childhood, ageing and public life—raising ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever ...

Even consciousness could reveal its secrets someday with this realistic simulation, researchers hope. It will not only ...

If Animal Crossing and SimCity weren't fun enough, a new Steam title takes both formulas and adds adorable cats into the mix.

The FLAMINGO super simulation maps the universe from its earliest moments but finds galaxies cluster less than cosmological ...

MicroProse has announced a new partnership with developer Geoff Crammond to re-release the four games in the Grand Prix series under a new name. The series ...

Thomas Anderson – otherwise known as Neo – is walking up a flight of stairs when he sees a black cat shake itself and walk past a doorway. Then the moment seems to replay before his eyes. Just a touch ...

A simulation of the EA Sports College Football 26 video game predicts Alabama will win the 2025 national championship. In the simulation, No. 9 Alabama defeats No. 8 Oklahoma, No. 1 Indiana, and No. 4 ...

Build an empire, pilot a jumbo jet, or try your hand at industrial power-washing with these engrossing sim and sandbox games. In 2014, I began my career at PCMag as a freelancer. That blossomed into a ...

From ancient Greek philosopher Plato to Neo, hero of the dystopian film fantasy The Matrix, humans have long pondered the true nature of reality. Can we trust what we see, taste, touch, smell, and ...