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?

NBA trade deadline day is here. No trades will be allowed this season after 3 p.m. on Thursday. But there has already been plenty of movement around the NBA, with a handful of big names traded in ...

TL;DR: Apple's upcoming 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros will feature powerful M5 Pro and M5 Max processors with advanced 2.5D SoIC-MH packaging from TSMC, enhancing heat dissipation and reducing ...

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The Milwaukee Bucks are seeking “a young blue-chip talent” and a surplus of draft picks in a potential Giannis Antetokounmpo trade, per ESPN’s Shams Charania. While the Golden State Warriors have the ...

As the mercury dipped to single digits recently, and the inches of snow piled into the double digits, the Globe asked readers to tell us about their experience with heat pumps, a technology that’s ...

A stretched polar vortex and plunging cold temperatures have heaters and furnaces working overtime this winter, causing many to question when to use the emergency heat or what 'aux heat' means when it ...

Data center servers, powerful smartphones, and your computer's motherboard have one thing in common. When these devices get too hot, their performance takes a hit, and we can't have that. That's why ...

Why it matters: For more than a century, copper and silver have set the standard for thermal conductivity in metals. A new study by UCLA engineers and their collaborators challenges that assumption, ...

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 ...