How do we know we’re not living in a computer simulation? Is it even possible to tell? For what it’s worth, researchers have drawn from various scientific frameworks to reject this hypothetical hypothetical reality—and a team of mathematicians now says they’ve taken the argument a step further. In a Journal of Holography Applications in Physics […]
Motion Sickness Sufferers, Rejoice: Scientists Say This Might Actually Help
Normally, I’d start this sort of article by saying something along the lines of, “Everyone knows how horrible it is to feel motion sick.” But that’s not entirely true—plenty of people can text, read, and do all sorts of things in a moving vehicle without feeling the slightest bit nauseous. If that sounds like you, you’ll […]
Most Detailed Simulation of Magnetic Turbulence in Space Is Surprisingly Beautiful
A new simulation of the galaxy’s magnetic turbulence shakes up how we think about—and visualize—the astrophysical environments. The model was developed by James Beattie, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto’s Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and Princeton University, and collaborators from the U.S., Australia, and Europe. Described in a recent paper in Nature […]
Wicked High-Definition Image of the Cosmic Web Shows the Universe’s Dark Matter Scaffolding
Researchers compiled hundreds of astronomical observations into a high-definition image of a cosmic filament, part of the megastructure that undergirds the universe’s matter. The filament connects two galaxies that date back to when the universe was a youthful 2 billion years old (it is now about 13.77 billion years old). It showcases the way a […]