While string theory is considered by some to be nothing more than elegant mathematics, the mathematics themselves have proven useful.

If the World Science Festival's panel on string theory tackled the question of whether the math behind it could be a reliable guide to reality, its panel on the Limits of Understanding seemed to ...

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New quantum mechanics research is introducing an advanced Pi formula, optimizing complex computations and reshaping ...

Moduli spaces form the mathematical framework for categorising the diverse solutions characteristic of string theory, providing a systematic means to parameterise the various vacuum configurations ...

You may not have heard of knot theory. But take it from Bill Menasco, a knot theorist of 35 years: This field of mathematics, rich in aesthetic beauty and intellectual challenges, has come a long way ...

Physicists looking for a way to test their theory about strings might make more progress if they tangle them up. String theory — equations that aspire to explain all of nature’s particles and forces — ...

But in a new video from Big Think, Brian Greene, a string theorist from Columbia University, offers up a relatively simple ...

Some physicists feel that string theory is simply too far divorced from reality and makes no simple predictions that can be tested, or at least not with the current generation of experiments. String ...

For decades researchers have tried to wrest testable predictions from string theory, the leading candidate for a more fundamental understanding of the universe. Now physicists say they have used one ...

Mathematicians are exploring a string duality between F-theory and heterotic string theory in eight dimensions.