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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.

Muhammed Hamza Waseem explains how he’s using education and outreach to make his research on quantum computing more ...

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

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 ...

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant ...

Ask almost any physicist what the most frustrating problem is in modern-day physics, and they will likely say the discrepancy between general relativity and quantum mechanics. That discrepancy has ...