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

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 ...

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

Some physicists claim the popular landscape of universes in string theory may not exist.

String theory, one of the most complex theories in the scientific community, may also be the "Theory of Everything" — a framework that explains everything in the universe. While still ...