Experimental physicists study the strong force; string theorists try to calculate its effects. Together, they are finding common ground, where string theory can be applied to the physics of quark ...

Much to the delight of the mainstream media, there's a battle royal going on in physics. Over recent months, a fair bit of mud has been slung in the theoretical physics community over the issue of ...

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String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single mathematical framework capable of describing the entirety of the known universe.

Peter Badge / Typos1 / The Abel Prize. This year, the Abel Prize — the field’s highest honor — has been awarded to Masaki ...

From the mid-1980s, string theory set up a possible framework to approach quantum gravity using a 'top-down' approach.

Prof. Seth Aubin -- experiment Quantum gases, laser cooling & trapping, atom chips, atom interferometry, parity violation. Prof. Todd Averett -- experiment Nuclear physics, polarized nuclear targets.