The reason strings are such a hot topic nowadays, Jones explains, is that the new theory not only helps to solve some long-standing problems in physics, but it also attempts to explain other, not ...

Here's everything you need to know about String Theory, one of the most spectacular (and controversial) physics theories ever developed.

String theory, one of the most complex theories in the scientific community, may also be the "Theory of Everything" — a framework that explains everything in the universe. While still ...

String theory has long been presented as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the Universe. Yet, at the beginning of the 21st century, it became apparent that most ...

Can one vanishing particle shatter string theory — and explain dark matter? Penn physicists and collaborators at Arizona State University "test" the fallibility of a framework that seeks to ...

5) Explain dark matter and dark energy Over the past few decades, string theory has emerged as the great hope for facing these five challenges.

To explain the string theory, how ten dimensions are necessary. Therefore, scientists thinking of string theory build a theory on a model in 10 dimensions which does not exist in reality.

Then there was the great disappointment, string theory doesn't naturally explain a nonzero vacuum energy, causing some theorists to fall back on the anthropic principle.