Hawking believes that String Theory can provide further insight than his earlier work on singularities, which could not explain how the Big Bang's "bang" was actually started.

Until recently, string theory — long heralded as a 'theory of everything' — hadn't been particularly good at explaining anything. But at a workshop this month at the Kavli Institute for ...

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 ...

But recently, a team of theorists has invoked the powers of so-called string theory to solve some fundamental riddles of the early universe.

My colleagues and I used to worry that a theory of these quantum phases of matter would forever elude us. That was before we learned about string theory. Tangled Up in Strings ...

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 ...

String theory might be the theory of everything… or a flawed framework for theoretical physics.