I tied my coffee cup to a string that was about 3 feet long. On the other end of the string, I tied some washers. Most people think the coffee cup will fall to the ground and break. However, when I ...

The job of soundman for a punk-rock band on the club circuit would seem to be a fairly simple matter of making sure the amplifiers are turned up to ear-shattering. But the members of Rachel’s, a band ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory helped power an experiment that might refute string theory. Experimentation in real life based on string theory is still pretty new, with much to discover. Scientists ...

The latest news in the particle physics media is that string theory is in trouble. That might not mean much to you if you don’t know what string theory is. Suppose all forces between fundamental ...

String theory was originally developed to describe the fundamental particles and forces that make up our universe. The new research, led by a team from Imperial College London, describes the ...

String theory found its origins in an attempt to understand the nascent experiments revealing the strong nuclear force. Eventually another theory, one based on particles called quarks and force ...