String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical framework capable of describing the entirety of the known ...

Scientists have long sought evidence to refute string theory, but a new test seeks to disprove key aspects with help from the Large Hadron Collider.

Scientists have long sought evidence to refute string theory, but a new test seeks to disprove key aspects with help from the Large Hadron Collider.

IN view of the number of different lines of approach, a borderline subject is apt to amass a vast literature, some of it difficult of access to investigators. This is particularly true of ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) According to a growing body of data, dark energy is not constant. Instead, physicists claim, it’s slowly getting weaker. This has understandably shaken our understanding of ...

Elsewhere, string theory was also the subject of Taylor Swift’s 2020 song “Invisible String”, believed to be a reference to her partner at the time, Joe Alwyn.