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 ...

Scattering takes place across the universe at large and miniscule scales. Billiard balls clank off each other in bars, the nuclei of atoms collide to power the stars and create heavy elements, and ...

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 ...

Subatomic particles such as quarks can pair up when linked by ‘strings’ of force fields — and release energy when the strings are pulled to the point of breaking. Two teams of physicists have now used ...