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 ...

If you could take an apple and break it into smaller and smaller parts, you would find molecules, then atoms, followed by subatomic particles like protons and the quarks and gluons that make them up.

String theory remains elusive as a 'provable' phenomenon. But a team of physicists has now taken a significant step forward in validating string theory by using an innovative mathematical method that ...

"When I was growing up, there were local heroes like Satyendra Nath Bose and Meghnad Saha who everyone in Kolkata knew," Professor Ashoke Sen recalls. Today, the 69-year-old is one of India's most ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: String theory attempts to unify general relativity and quantum theory. Popular in the 1990s, string theory fell out of favor as it failed to provide ...