Recently, I watched a fellow particle physicist talk about a calculation he had pushed to a new height of precision. His tool? A 1980s-era computer program called FORM. Particle physicists use some of ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Physicists have long hoped to create computer models of ...

The complete circuit for measuring the number of particles created in an expanding universe. Credit: Scientific Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-87015-6. A new study published in Scientific ...

Researchers have used a quantum computer to uncover a mysterious particle called an anyon that appears to remember its past. Anyons were first theorised by physicists in the 1970s, with a particular ...

Last year, researchers at Fermilab received over $3.5 million for projects that delve into the burgeoning field of quantum information science. Research funded by the grant runs the gamut, from ...

Elementary particles are the fundamental buildings blocks of matter, and their properties are described by the Standard Model of particle physics. The discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN in 2012 ...

A quantum computer that can simulate interactions between fundamental particles has been unveiled by physicists in Austria. Four trapped ions were used to model the physics that describes the creation ...

Maintenance of the software that’s used for the hardest physics calculations rests almost entirely with a retiree. The situation reveals the problematic incentive structure of academia. Recently, I ...