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 ...

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

The theory failed to unite gravity and quantum mechanics. But it still has become one of the most useful tools in science.