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 ...

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single ...

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 ...

If string theory proves to be accurate, we will be able to explain all known physical events in our universe– from the generation of the tiniest subatomic particles to the events that take place ...

String theory is an attempt to unite the two pillars of 20th century physics — quantum mechanics and Albert Einstein's theory of relativity — with an overarching framework that can explain all ...

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 ...

The final installment of a three-part NOVA series about "String Theory," a new branch of science that seeks to explain nothing less than how the universe works, airs on PBS. Ray Suarez speaks with ...

The five main string-theory candidates may all just be pieces of a larger, cohesive whole — and M-theory could bring them together.

String theory was formulated in the late 1960s to explain certain features of the strong nuclear force, one of four fundamental forces of nature.