At its core is a fairly simple idea—all particles are made of tiny vibrating strands of energy. (String theory gets its name from the string-like appearance of these energy strands.) Unlike ...

For decades, scientists have been looking for evidence of strings that connect everything in the universe. A new model offers ...

The research was done by Caltech’s Clifford Cheung and Aaron Hillman along with Grant Remmen at New York University. They ...

Kibble described these as slender strands (skinnier ... added to the theory: That symmetry still exists within strings. That strings evolve when vibrations cause part of a string to snap off ...

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.

For decades now, many physicists have pursued the hope that equations involving an especially tiny "string" could provide the theory that solves nature's ultimate subatomic mysteries. String ...