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When your laboratory is a closed box, orbiting 250 miles above Earth on the International Space Station, it can be challenging to get a visual on what’s going inside the lab. That was a problem that ...

For years, the idea that we might be living inside a vast computer program has drifted from philosophy seminars into ...