WHEN Joseph Conlon was an undergraduate in the early 2000s, he avoided popular science accounts of string theory because he wanted to engage with it on a technical level, without preconceptions. It ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: String theory—the idea that particles are not point-like, but instead one-dimensional strings—is a popular theoretical framework that attempts to ...

Strings & branes is a research area within theoretical high-energy physics and quantum gravity that studies extended fundamental objects—one-dimensional strings and higher-dimensional branes—in ...