I tied my coffee cup to a string that was about 3 feet long. On the other end of the string, I tied some washers. Most people think the coffee cup will fall to the ground and break. However, when I ...

Could some observations from a faraway galaxy add up to a refutation of string theory? Researchers who study data from NASA’s Chandra Observatory think so. It’s difficult to prove something’s absence ...

The latest news in the particle physics media is that string theory is in trouble. That might not mean much to you if you don’t know what string theory is. Suppose all forces between fundamental ...

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