The technology that has helped propel the simulation theory may be new, but the questions it explores are ancient.

On the morning of 12th November 1975, with these words, Chief Justice A.N. Ray dissolved a bench of thirteen Judges that had been reviewing the seminal judgment of Kesavananda Bharati[2] – ...

Is everything we see, feel, and experience not real? Plato already proposed this theory with his myth of the cave. For ...

The dream of creating game-changing quantum computers—supermachines that encode information in single atoms rather than ...

The justice has famously endeavored to do right by Native Americans and restore their place in the constitutional order. Here ...

In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, "The Matrix," a computer hacker named Neo finds that ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

But putting forward a theory of progress is not only a way of settling a theoretical dispute; it’s also a move with real stakes. As confidence in collective life wanes, progress can seem not merely ...

THE age of laws is, perhaps, over. As someone put it, ‘When you don’t know what to do, you can always pass a law; it doesn’t ...

After 150 years of mystery, neuroscience has finally cracked the code on how language works in the brain—and the answer is surprisingly elegant.

As we approach the anticipated artificial intelligence singularity and the strain builds, showing the fault lines in our systems, different aspects emerge and begin to converge.

A new study suggests that it is mathematically impossible for the universe to be an ultra-sophisticated computer-generated simulation. The study, ...