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

The answer, dear multi-dimensional bundles of vibrating string, lie as much in our selves as in our stars. It’s not just that the math of string theory is complex, though it certainly is.

The idea of String Theory is that our Universe came from a higher-dimensional, more symmetric, more complex state with an enormous number of degrees of freedom. In order for String Theory to be ...

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 ...

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

String theory and number theory have common ground in a specific kind of elliptic curve from a torus. Toruses aren't just for compressing atoms: these curves represent torus cross-sections.

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 ...

String theory — there are five of them — merges Einstein’s general relativity with quantum mechanics to understand black holes and the universe. Now the theories are coming together to form ...

String theory is such a tempting, beautiful idea — but after 60 years, it hasn't produced a final theory or predictions to test against experiment in the real universe. Should we keep hanging ...