Few scientific ideas have leapt from philosophy seminars to dinner-table debates as quickly as the claim that our universe ...

Gravity used to be the most down-to-earth of ideas, the thing that kept apples falling and planets in line. Now a growing group of physicists is treating it as a possible glitch report from the fabric ...

Mathematical simulation is a computational method that uses formal mathematical models—such as systems of differential equations, stochastic processes, or optimization formulations—to numerically ...