String theory captured the hearts and minds of many ... Europe Launches an Initiative to Attract It The Choose Europe for Science program will invest more than half a billion dollars between ...

Regardless of whether string theory can ever be massaged into a "theory of everything," its legacy as a productive research program may be assured on mathematical merit alone. "It can't be a dead ...

String theory began over 50 years ago as a way to understand the strong nuclear force. Since then, it’s grown to become a theory of everything, capable of explaining the nature of every particle ...

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use ...

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 ...

At least you can test rocket science. No, Greene is writing about string theory, the most fantastical and unprovable frontiers of science. As he explains for the uninitiated masses, string theory ...

The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next) Peter Woit, lecturer in mathematics, Columbia University: “The failure of the superstring-theory program must be recognized ...

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.