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

Space.com caught up with Greene to discuss the importance of science education, why black holes are so interesting and whether a "theory of everything" breakthrough could be on the horizon.

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 ...

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 ...

In 2023, the invisible string theory began trending on social media, with millions of posts shared under the phrase “The Invisible String Theory Stories” on TikTok.

Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles—though not yet those of our universe.

String theory could provide a theory of everything for our universe—but it entails 10500 (more than a centillion) possible solutions. AI models could help to find the right one ...

String theory has not yet made any experimentally verified predictions about our physical world that go beyond the Standard Model of particle physics and general relativity. Speculative scientific ...