String theory is having another bad week on the internet with feuds roiling on the social media platform X. François Chollet ...

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 ...

An international team led by Innsbruck quantum physicist Peter Zoller, together with the US company QuEra Computing, has directly observed a gauge field theory similar to models from particle physics ...

Atoms confined to a single line can bind into clusters called Bethe strings. A new experiment points to a mix of many such ...

A quantum simulator has given physicists a new look at one of the strangest ...

Brian Greene, a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and director of Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Physics, is the author of “The Elegant Universe” and “Until the End of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. String theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a ...

String theory seeks to describe fundamental interactions by modelling particles as one-dimensional strings. In efforts to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity, it introduces additional ...

A trapped-ion quantum simulator has captured the real-time unraveling of a confining string, revealing that charge pairs form ...

In the past week (October 10–17, 2026), research in cosmology, physics, mathematics, and philosophy has seen parallel ...

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 ...