Researchers have finally resolved a key problem in a 100-year-old theory of color, showing that the qualities we perceive in ...

Faster-than-light particles have spent decades in physics as both temptation and warning. They offered a way to test the ...

The gauge bosons of the standard model of particle physics are responsible for three of the four known forces in the universe ...

For decades, physicists have been stuck between two frameworks that each work brilliantly but refuse to reconcile. A study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. String theory attempts to unify general relativity and quantum theory. Popular in the 1990s, string theory fell out of favor as it ...

Physicists searching for a better understanding of quantum gravity stumbled upon something unexpected: the defining signatures of string theory.

With just a handful of assumptions, string theory stands alone. Based on the idea that all subatomic particles are made up of vibrating strings of energy, string theory is a candidate for a “theory of ...

Geometric field theories in higher dimensions encompass a broad class of frameworks that extend the familiar four-dimensional description of spacetime to manifolds of greater dimensionality, often ...

Physicists are making new inroads into the world of post-quantum theories, uncovering what reality may look like on a level deeper and stranger than the already infamously odd quantum theory. In the ...

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Awarded to Jean Bennett, Katherine A. High and Albert Maguire; Stuart H. Orkin and Swee Lay Thein; Rosa Rademakers and Bryan Traynor LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2026 ...

Scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have used mathematical concepts from string theory, a theoretical description of the mechanics of the entire universe, to upend over a century of ...