Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of "Your Place in the Universe." Sutter contributed this article to ...

A series of four articles about people at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) has been published in the Canadian magazine Maclean’s and one article in particular has got people ...

String theory began over 50 years ago as a way to understand the strong nuclear force. Since then, it’s grown to become a theory of everything, capable of explaining the nature of every particle, ...

There is no getting away from it: string theory is an incredibly vast and challenging subject. With its talk of D-branes, 10- or 11-dimensional universes and a myriad of possible solutions – 10 500 at ...