However, the problem with string theory is that it is so flexible that it can explain almost anything, making it nearly ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in ...

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

A new study proposes that discovering a single exotic particle at the LHC could falsify string theory as we know it.

String theory has long been presented as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the Universe.

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 ...

String theory has resolved a vexing puzzle by identifying the microscopic carriers of their internal disorder, a feature discovered in the 1970s by Stephen Hawking. ...

Conventional string theory’s predictions are incompatible both with the observation of dark energy, which appears to be causing our universe’s expansion to speed up, and with viable theories ...