New lightweight artificial resistive loads deliver precise, field-ready load simulation to improve meter testing ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...

The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...

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An inventor is captivating the Internet after proclaiming to be “under attack.” Atlanta resident Julian Brown has not been seen since July 9, when he posted a cryptic video via Instagram. “I can’t go ...

A ratcheting wrench, is a type of wrench that employs a ratchet mechanism to block movement in one direction while allowing constant rotation in another. The mechanism, consisting of a pawl and a gear ...

Remember when Donald Trump discovered the word “groceries” and then felt he had to teach us what it meant? “It’s such an old-fashioned term but a beautiful term: groceries,” he said on the campaign ...

What if gravity were informed by the way matter was arranged in the universe — and a sign that we were living in a reality composed by a giant computer? In a new paper published in the journal AIP ...

Toast is pretty much the greatest thing to happen since—and to—sliced bread. There’s nothing more satisfying than sticking a piece or two between the metal grates, sliding down the lever and watching ...

University of Portsmouth provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Ooboo Vroose Baa Dooo! That’s “happy birthday” in Simlish, the delightfully nonsensical language of The Sims. The life ...