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

The answer, dear multi-dimensional bundles of vibrating string, lie as much in our selves as in our stars. It’s not just that the math of string theory is complex, though it certainly is.

The idea of String Theory is that our Universe came from a higher-dimensional, more symmetric, more complex state with an enormous number of degrees of freedom. In order for String Theory to be ...

Alongside string theory’s explanation of the generation of subatomic particles is another idea often found in science-fiction novels: the concept of extra dimensions.

Benefits of string theory NOVA: If string theory is right, will there be technological or other benefits to society?

String theory and number theory have common ground in a specific kind of elliptic curve from a torus. Toruses aren't just for compressing atoms: these curves represent torus cross-sections.

Stanford math professor Keith Devlin talks about two new books that call into question the entire idea of string theory. The theory states that tiny vibrating strings make up everything, but some ...

String theorists are shifting focus to solve some rather sticky problems in physics. Over the past few years, string theory has been less about trying to find a unifying description of all forces ...

String theory is such a tempting, beautiful idea — but after 60 years, it hasn't produced a final theory or predictions to test against experiment in the real universe. Should we keep hanging ...

The physicist-mathematician Miranda Cheng is working to harness a mysterious connection between string theory, algebra and number theory.