If you've spent any time on TikTok recently (or had Taylor Swift's “Invisible String” on repeat), you've probably heard someone mention the invisible string theory. It's become one of the internet's ...

Scientists seeking the secrets of the universe would like to make a model that shows how all of nature's forces and particles fit together. It would be nice to do it with Legos. But perhaps a better ...

Elise LePage, a Junior Fellow of the Simons Society of Fellows, is a postdoctoral research scientist forging new mathematics driven by string theory. Hatnim Lee/Simons Foundation String theory ...

String theory is the idea that the building blocks of nature are made up of tiny, one-dimensional strings of energy rather than point particles. According to the theory, these strings vibrate at ...