Brian Greene likes to think he's got it all figured out. Literally. And it all boils down to string. A Columbia University physics professor, Greene is one of the world's leading thinkers and writers ...

(Phys.org)—Look hard enough, string theory says, and at a scale so small that atoms loom as large as entire continents do to us you would see that every particle in the universe is just the product of ...

String theory, simultaneously one of the most promising and controversial ideas in modern physics, may be more capable of helping probe the inner workings of subatomic particles than was previously ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the ...

Einstein desperately wanted a unified theory of physics. Thanks to gravitational waves—the poster child of general relativity—his wish might just come true. Gravitational waves are ripples in the ...

Researchers believe that black holes may contain supermazes—intricate paths formed by vibrating strings. Both scientists and writers have been baffled by black holes for years. They swallow light, ...

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A philandering string theorist is caught with another woman by his wife. “But darling,” he pleads, “I can explain everything!” I didn’t invent the joke; it appeared in the satirical magazine The Onion ...