The book “ String Theory for Dummies ” by Andrew Zimmerman Jones tries to capture the excitement of these developments without using any equations.

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

String theory is considered the leading “theory of everything,” but there’s still no empirical evidence for it.

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 ...

String theory might be the theory of everything… or a flawed framework for theoretical physics.

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.