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

Since the 1980s, string theory has emerged as the leading candidate for achieving every physicist’s dream: reconciling general relativity with quantum mechanics and thereby finding a tidy ...

Scientists have found what they say is a link between complex number theory and string theory: a specific kind of elliptic curve from a torus.

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 ...

Until recently, string theory — long heralded as a 'theory of everything' — hadn't been particularly good at explaining anything. But at a workshop this month at the Kavli Institute for ...

Testing String Theory Advocates say vibrating strings underlie every particle and every force in the universe. But will anyone ever be able to prove that?

Ultimately, "String theory is unprovable" is simply not a true statement until you start to narrow the definition of provable to something focused on our own navels.

In “The Elegant Universe,” Brian Greene brings general relativity, quantum mechanics and string theory to prime-time TV and the Web.

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.