The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

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War on Science takes aim at science’s global culture wars. Edited by controversial physicist Lawrence Krauss, it argues ...

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A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer ...

The message is hammered over and over, in news conferences, hearings, and executive orders: President Donald Trump and his ...

Researchers design studies that might disprove what’s called their null hypothesis – the opposite of the claim they’re ...