A University of Vermont physicist and his student wondered if there are systems in the atomic scale that behave like the ...

Requiem for a string: Charting the rise and fall of a theory of everything String theory was supposed to explain all of physics. What went wrong?

In a 2006 book that garnered much press for its silly attacks on string theory, author and physicist Lee Smolin provides a list of “The Five Great Problems in Theoretical Physics.” There are ...

Scientists have long sought evidence to refute string theory, but a new test seeks to disprove key aspects with help from the Large Hadron Collider.

The apparent inability of physics’ string theory to be proved right or wrong is one of the stickiest – and argument-generating – problems in modern science. But now researchers at the ...

The physics of string instruments is fairly well understood, but "I wanted to understand what it was about these guitar techniques that allows you to manipulate pitch," Grimes said.

Scientists have discovered a solution to the “damped quantum harmonic oscillator,” paving the way for what could become the ...