Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Is the whole universe just a simulation?

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

Adam is a lifelong gamer who enjoys RPGs, action adventure games and a healthy helping of VR to boot. He has written for countless sites in the gaming medium, and you can find him playing the newest ...

After a long 18 months of negotiations and regulatory scrutiny, Synopsys has finalized its approximate $35 billion acquisition of Ansys. This acquisition merges two leading companies in their ...

BEIJING, July 14 (Reuters) - China's market regulator has conditionally approved U.S. chip design software provider Synopsys' (SNPS.O), opens new tab acquisition of engineering design firm Ansys (ANSS ...

Wingcopter, a developer of delivery drones for critical healthcare supplies, has partnered with Ansys to improve the design and performance of its aircraft. With support from Ansys and its channel ...

Why real-world, physics-based simulation is important to designers. What is a pluggable solver? What is Ansys Perceive EM? These days, most products are simulated well before they’re constructed or ...

What if gravity were informed by the way matter was arranged in the universe — and a sign that we were living in a reality composed by a giant computer? In a new paper published in the journal AIP ...

The critical darling turned Awards heavyweight “Flow” just became a newly-minted Oscar winner after taking home the prize for Best Animated Feature during Sunday’s ceremony — the first Academy Award ...

How in-house-developed and third-party general-purpose simulation tools are limited to a few expert users and aren’t easily shareable. How multiphysics simulation of subsystems can result in an ...

Gints Zilbalodis' wordless film Flow, which follows Cat, a solitary animal whose home is devastated by a great flood, is now available to watch from home as it makes its streaming debut. Following its ...