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

String theory, conceptualized more than 50 years ago as a framework to explain the formation of matter, remains elusive as a "provable" phenomenon. But a team of physicists has now taken a ...

String theory has long been touted as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the universe, with elementary particles and forces described as vibrations of tiny threads ...

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