For decades now, many physicists have pursued the hope that equations involving an especially tiny "string" could provide the theory that solves nature's ultimate subatomic mysteries. String ...

After writing a 400-page book on string theory and then helping NOVA translate that book into a three-hour documentary, would Brian Greene, we wondered, have anything more to say about string theory?

it may be a string theory of some sort. That series of why, why, why questions, like an unpleasant child, will come to an end in a final theory and then we will know. We will know the book of ...

Bootstrapping strings Evidence that string theory could be the sole viable “theory of everything” has emerged in a new theoretical study of particle scattering. (Courtesy: iStock/Anadmist) Striking ...

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Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains why he thinks string theory is the best way to understand how the universe works. US Treasury Secretary says they are focusing on bond yields rather than ...

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical framework capable of describing the entirety of the known universe.