Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When scientists push the limits of the world's most powerful supercomputers, they often find those limits are just the beginning ...

Sulfur is one of the most abundant elements in the universe. If you peer into a diffuse interstellar cloud, you find loads of it—about the amount expected based on fusion patterns in the stars it was ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the dreams of science fiction enthusiasts when he began to study the limits of ...

An international research team led by Chinese scientists at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of ...

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 ...

For more than a quarter of a century since its release, 'The Matrix' has fueled modern fears that life is not all it seems. But according to a scientist, the classic movie's premise may not be ...

Scientists have used supercomputers to create a "synthetic universe" that will help predict what the next generation of super-telescopes will see upon opening their eyes to the cosmos. These ...

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Scientists are starting to notice something unsettling: parts of the universe aren’t behaving the way the “trusted” rules say they should. In this video, the strangest new observations get unpacked — ...