This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. For a long time, the architectural world seemed convinced that the only way to make a building feel healthy was to ...

Is the universe real? Or are all the stars and planets (including Earth and everything and everyone on it) just simulations in some colossal video game? What sounds like a silly question is actually ...

Artificial intelligence is often thought of as disembodied: a mind like a program, floating in a digital void. But human minds are deeply intertwined with our bodies — and an experiment with virtual ...

What if your thoughts and everything you perceive are nothing but bits in a computer simulation designed to satisfy the curiosity of scientists with capabilities far beyond anything known to human ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...

Pitcher Mark Prior of the Chicago Cubs threw a “simulated game” on Tuesday, his second since he injured his elbow last month. His teammate Kerry Wood is also working to recover from a recent injury; ...