Reality is stranger than you think. Seriously. While we go about our daily lives, convinced we understand the basics of ...

Everyday life is saturated with location-dependent devices. They are multiplying faster than ever and their requirements have ...

For centuries, humans have marveled at the strange theater of their nightly visions. We wake with fragments of impossible ...

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 ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a significant discovery regarding ...

Tao, J. and Ke, Y. (2026) Facilitating or Inhibiting: A Cross-Level Study of the Impact of Artificial Intelligence Usage on Employees’ Thriving at Work. Open Journal of Business and Management, 14, ...

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...

Pupil dilation provides a physiological readout of information gain during the brain's internal process of belief updating in the context of associative learning.

World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results adopts the analytical framework of the demographic transition—the historic shift towards longer lives and smaller families—approximated here by the ...