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

While string theory is considered by some to be nothing more than elegant mathematics, the mathematics themselves have proven useful.

If the World Science Festival's panel on string theory tackled the question of whether the math behind it could be a reliable guide to reality, its panel on the Limits of Understanding seemed to ...

The answer, dear multi-dimensional bundles of vibrating string, lie as much in our selves as in our stars. It’s not just that the math of string theory is complex, though it certainly is.

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The surprise appearance of string theory mathematics in entangled particles may signal a deeper connection between quantum mechanics, which is typically observed on very tiny scales, and the universe.

Even as string theory’s mathematical tools get adopted across the physical sciences, physicists have been struggling with how to deal with the central tension of string theory: Can it ever live ...

Mathematical trickery borrowed from string theory raises hopes of understanding the densest stuff in the universe ...

You may not have heard of knot theory. But take it from Bill Menasco, a knot theorist of 35 years: This field of mathematics, rich in aesthetic beauty and intellectual challenges, has come a long way ...

Alongside string theory’s explanation of the generation of subatomic particles is another idea often found in science-fiction novels: the concept of extra dimensions.