String theory

After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the moment to warn of nuclear war’s existential threat—and how we can escape it

Mathematical tools from string theory are giving scientists a new way to study the networking of neurons

Researchers have shown that abstract mathematical functions from the frontiers of theoretical physics have a real-world use in modeling gravitational waves

Two physicists have come across infinitely many novel equations for pi while trying to develop a unifying theory of the fundamental forces

A lab-made black hole is beyond current technology but could be possible one day

The Ads/CFT duality conjecture suggests our universe is a hologram, enabling significant discoveries in the 25 years since it was first proposed

His groundbreaking work combined the mathematical field of topology with string theory

Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server

The Harvard physicist explains the collaboration's long-awaited research on the black-hole information paradox

In my last post Steven Weinberg, one of history’s greatest physicists, answers questions about progress—or the lack thereof—in particle physics, cosmology and politics.

One might think that success in science requires seeing through your own bullshit as well as the bullshit of others. But in my experience, this quality is quite rare.

Last night at the 87th Academy Awards, Eddie Redmayne won the Oscar for best actor for his portrayal of theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.