A remarkably small bacterium containing fewer than 500 genes serves as the basis for one of the most detailed digital life reconstructions ever created. Using computer technology, scientists have ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...

Scientists recently declared there may be evidence that the universe is a computer simulation. That's still up for debate - but this might add a bit more speculative fuel to the dubious fire. A ...