Usually, there’s a pretty clear delineation between the real world and fiction. You go to the movies, and you see a T. rex eating some poor sap hiding on a resort toilet and you know it isn’t true, ...

The red pill or the blue pill—the famous question that frames the entirety of The Matrix. In the 1999 film, a surprisingly resolute Neo takes the red pill and decides to “see how far down the rabbit ...

Sometimes a movie is more than a movie. The Matrix, which came out in 1999, was a science-fiction hit, but it also contained a disturbing image of reality. People went through their everyday lives not ...

For two decades, scientists have seriously considered whether we’re living in a simulated universe. A computer scientist at the University of Louisville explores ways that humans could try to hack our ...