A multi-institutional team of environmental scientists has built a computer simulation showing that more than half of all people globally have limited access to safe drinking water. The findings ...

Artificial intelligence has learned to play soccer. By learning from decades’ worth of computer simulations, an AI took digital humanoids from flailing tots to proficient players.

Of some help could be a new computer simulation that traces how all elements of the universe — ordinary matter, dark matter and dark energy — evolve according to the laws of physics.

"What is this, all this missing stuff? The 95 per cent of the universe that we cannot find, we cannot see. Well, that's the code. Maybe, that is the code that runs the simulation," he said.

Elon Musk is a proponent of the simulation hypothesis (Getty Images)© Provided by Indy 100 Dr Vopson provided some examples of naturally occurring symetries in his paper (Melvin M. Vopson/AIP ...

In simulations, that’s exactly what occurs when a system tries to function more efficiently. So, matter flowing under the influence of gravity need not be a result of a force at all.

The simulation theory is not unique to Professor Vopson; in fact, it's popular among a number of well-known figures including Tesla founder Elon Musk. But in recent years Professor Vopson has been ...

Using a supercomputer, the simulation was designed to mirror the real world consequences of the laws of physics acting on dark matter and cosmic gas over the 13.7 billion years since the Big Bang.

Running the simulation took years in total, with the final calculations taking place in 1955, after Fermi’s death. “I was the only one who worked on it pretty much regularly,” Tsingou says.

The simulation hypothesis suggests that we're all living inside a computer simulation, possibly programmed by our own future selves. But scientists are split over the theory.

U.S. researchers have created what they say is the first scientifically accurate 3-D simulation of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. The animation, created by ...