This research advances hybrid soft-rigid robot simulations, achieving up to 1000 times faster computations through analytical derivatives in the GVS framework.

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 CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Is the whole universe just a simulation?

What’s the most surefire way to achieve Civil War 2.0 in the United States? According to one wild simulation, it’s exactly what’s happening right now in Minneapolis. In October 2024, researchers at ...

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 ...

Optimization problems often involve situations in which the user's goal is to minimize and/or maximize not a single objective function, but several, usually conflicting, functions simultaneously. Such ...

Researchers combined deep learning with high-resolution physics to create the first Milky Way model that tracks over 100 billion stars individually. Their AI learned how gas behaves after supernovae, ...

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 idea that we’re living inside a simulation, as popularized by “The Matrix” franchise, has piqued the interest of scientists for decades. In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed in a highly ...

The team's conclusion is clear and marks an important scientific achievement, says Dr. Faizal. "Any simulation is inherently algorithmic—it must follow programmed rules," he says. "But since the ...

The field of supply chain, manufacturing, warehouse, and building evacuation optimization has undergone transformative changes with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and simulation ...

A neural network is a machine learning model originally inspired by how the human brain works (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Jackie Niam) Precision measurements of theoretical parameters are a core element ...