Adam Queen's fingers nimbly slide across the empty face of the tennis racket. The hole in the frame quickly fills as Queen, with a surgeon's precision, guides a 40-foot piece of synthetic white string ...

In the last few years, excitement has grown among scientists as they've pursued a revolutionary new approach to unifying nature's forces. To the uninitiated, string theory is totally mind-boggling.

In a Lowhill Township living room with a 26-foot-high chimney and a library of stringed instruments, three Portuguese men and an English-American are promoting their new project: a 56-year-old master ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

PINOLE — Walking into the Fratello Marionettes workshop is like stepping into a world of imagination. There are wolves and fantastical animals of every description, and stringed people of every size ...

reviews the concepts of general relativity (Einstein's theory of gravity that describes the universe on a large scale) and quantum mechanics (a theory that describes the universe on a very small scale ...