In quantum field theory, spontaneous particle formation can occur when the potential energy between two elementary particles increases with their separation, as if they were confined by a string. When ...

Around the end of the last century, there was a first boom in superstring theory, and it was hyped in the public eye as the ...

We live our lives thinking that the universe spread out before our eyes is 'the real universe'.But what if the same universe ...

A research team led by Haruki Watanabe, a professor in the Department of Physics and the Jockey Club Institute for Advanced ...

Guitarist John 5 recounts his musical career in the recently released episode of Ernie Ball’s ‘String Theory’ series.

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

Strike a bell, and it rings with a pitch and a fading that tell you about the bell: its size, its shape, the metal it is made of. Black holes ring too. When two merge, the newborn black hole shivers ...

Atoms confined to a single line can bind into clusters called Bethe strings. A new experiment points to a mix of many such clusters, though the evidence is indirect.

Was California’s hippie music scene secretly engineered to discredit anti-war protesters? The strange Laurel Canyon theory ...

A MAN’S decomposing body has been discovered floating off a Spanish holiday beach with a bullet wound through his head. The ...

A HKUST-led team has developed a unified theory that determines when phases of matter are truly distinct, resolving the ...

Burglars broke into several Chicago businesses overnight, in some cases causing severe damage without stealing anything.