The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals ...

Veronika Koren talks about pursuing a theory of neural coding that doesn’t fit a simple narrative, and the resilience it took to see it through.

Researchers from China University of Petroleum (East China), in collaboration with international partners, have reported a ...

The 2026 ACS president will spend the society's 150th anniversary focusing on growing ACS's platform and engaging its members ...

What if our understanding of consciousness has been missing the point by trying to compare it to software? The debate on the ...

Abstract: CXL interface is the up-to-date technology that enables effective memory expansion by providing a memory-sharing protocol in configuring heterogeneous devices. However, its limited physical ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

Abstract: In this pilot study we created and evaluated a new version of the TechCheck Computational Thinking (CT) assessment designed specifically for kindergarten students. The original version of ...

Capturing the first image of a supermassive black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). This image of the black hole at the center of the nearby galaxy M87 reveals how gravitation affects the ...