With private company defaults running at upward of 9.2% — the highest rate in years — VC firm Lux Capital recently advised companies relying on AI to get their compute capacity commitments confirmed ...

Could parallel universes exist? If so, what would they look like and how would they form? Video by Greg Kestin; article by Charles Choi. Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content ...

Image: Ralph Losey using AI. In the history of technological revolutions, there are moments that challenge not only our understanding of what is possible but the very nature of reality itself.

You might not like what I’m about to say about the multiverse. But don’t worry; you’ve already had your revenge. If there are an infinite number of parallel universes, there will be any number of ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Did Google's new experiment with the Willow quantum computer prove that parallel universes exist? What does it have to do with the many worlds interpretation?

Testing the multiverse hypothesis requires measuring whether our universe is statistically typical among the infinite variety of universes. But infinity does a number on statistics. If modern physics ...

Almost anybody who has ever thought deeply about the universe sooner or later wonders if there is more than one of them. Whether a multiplicity of universes—known as a multiverse—actually exists has ...

Cosmology must seem odd to scientists in other fields. More and more accurate data about the distant Universe are being generated by high-tech observational techniques, giving rise to an era of ...