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 mathematical framework capable of describing the entirety of the known universe. At ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Photons always propagate at the speed of light and obey the same rules of nature, regardless of their energy. If certain models of quantum gravity or string theory are correct, photons above a ...

However, for more than 40 years now, there has never been found a single piece of experimental data that can only be explained by string theory. String theory cannot explain anything better than the ...