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 ...

In the movie *The Martian*, the protagonist survives by growing potatoes in a small lab on Mars. Now, the once-fictional concept of "space farming" is inching closer to reality on the Moon. A research ...

On a warm afternoon last fall, Steven Caron, a technical artist at the video-game company Quixel, stood at the edge of a redwood grove in the Oakland Hills. “Cross your eyes, kind of blur your eyes, ...

Victoria LaBarre was climbing out of a canyon and into a bright, vast, seemingly lifeless landscape when she started to experience an astronaut's nightmare. "Suddenly," she said, "I couldn't breathe." ...

Not to be confused with the Metaverse whatsoever, the Simulated Universe is one of Honkai: Star Rail’s many activities for earning the highly sought-after Stellar Jade resource. After all, most of us ...