If you've been using a personal computer for long enough, you've probably made a habit of interchangeably referring to the applications on your hard drive as programs or software. Both terms have been ...

Some scientific discoveries matter because they reveal something new — the double helical structure of DNA, for example, or the existence of black holes. However, some revelations are profound because ...

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 ...