Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

For many scientists, understanding means being able to create a mental model that allows them to predict how a system would behave under different conditions. For the brain sciences, this type of ...

What if your thoughts and everything you perceive are nothing but bits in a computer simulation designed to satisfy the curiosity of scientists with capabilities far beyond anything known to human ...

The simulation hypothesis is a modern attempt to use logic and observations about technology to finally answer these ...