The five main string-theory candidates may all just be pieces of a larger, cohesive whole — and M-theory could bring them together.

String theory, one of the most complex theories in the scientific community, may also be the "Theory of Everything" — a framework that explains everything in the universe. While still ...

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 ...

But recently, a team of theorists has invoked the powers of so-called string theory to solve some fundamental riddles of the early universe.

Can one vanishing particle shatter string theory — and explain dark matter? Penn physicists and collaborators at Arizona State University "test" the fallibility of a framework that seeks to ...

My colleagues and I used to worry that a theory of these quantum phases of matter would forever elude us. That was before we learned about string theory. Tangled Up in Strings ...

String theory has long been presented as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the Universe. Yet, at the beginning of the 21st century, it became apparent that most ...

String theory has long been presented as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the Universe. Yet, at the beginning of the 21st century, it became apparent that most ...