The Matrix, a 1999 film, has become a cultural touchstone, sparking discussions about the nature of reality and the concept ...

Have you ever wondered if we might all be stuck in a matrix-type reality? What would it feel like (or if we would even know!) ...

It may sound like the outlandish plot of a poorly conceived science-fiction flick. But some scientists now claim that humanity, the Earth, and everything else in the universe are really part of a ...

Gazing up at the stars at night, it’s easy to imagine that space goes on forever. But cosmologists know that the universe actually has limits. First, their best models indicate that space and time had ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Image extracted from the Euclid Flagship simulations catalogue. Each dot represents a galaxy: ...

What if gravity were informed by the way matter was arranged in the universe — and a sign that we were living in a reality composed by a giant computer? In a new paper published in the journal AIP ...

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature–one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true. Suppose ...