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Sid was born, did some stuff, then decided to become a writer. He finds respite in the sweet embrace of mass media escapism after having risked his life too many times as a journalist covering ...

The best simulation games give us - regular people - the chance to do things we wouldn't usually get the chance to do. Sometimes, these are extraordinary, highly specialized activities, and sometimes ...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

People have long asked whether the world they experience is fundamentally real or the product of a simulation, a question often framed today as the simulation hypothesis. A new paper examines a ...

The sense of accomplishment after successfully completing a simulation game is difficult to put into words. It makes an expert out of you, of some of the world’s toughest jobs and responsibilities.

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...