An ancient Mayan prophecy that was debunked over a decade ago has returned with a shocking new twist which is gaining support ...

A viral theory claims world ended in 2012 and humanity now lives in a simulation. The idea is linked to Mayan calendar and ...

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

In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix,” a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn’t real. It’s a virtual reality, created ...

In classic blockbuster film 'The Matrix', humans are enslaved by AI because it wants our body heat to power its computers. While this sounds straight from the annuls of sci-fi, a physics professor ...

Arguments that we live in a simulated world have been thrown around for centuries. French philosopher René Descartes originally theorised about the brain-in-a-vat in his 1641 'Meditations on First ...

What if the world around us was not real? Could it be that the screen you’re looking at, the air you’re breathing, the ground beneath your feet and even the smallest particles that make up your body ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...

The Covid-19 pandemic inadvertently revived the simulation hypothesis, with Dr. Melvin Vopson suggesting that the universe may function like an advanced computational construct. Vopson introduced the ...

The controversy-ridden entrepreneur says we are trapped in a “Matrix”-like existence and that we are part of a more powerful civilisation’s simulation. Mr Musk, who is facing a legal battle after ...