Quanta Magazine

String Theory Can Now Describe a Universe That Has Dark Energy

In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion.
Quanta Magazine

Diminishing Dark Energy May Evade the ‘Swampland’ of Impossible Universes

The largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos hints that the dark energy that’s fueling the universe’s expansion may be weakening. One community of theoretical physicists expected as much. On the morning of ...
Yahoo

Parallel universes and life after death? Dr. Michio Kaku weighs in

(NewsNation) — Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku supports the concept of parallel universes, but he says people shouldn’t get their hopes up about meeting their doppelganger in another dimension, ...
The Conversation

String theory: scientists are trying new ways to verify the idea that could unite all of physics

Marika Taylor currently receives funding from EPSRC, STFC, UK government deparments and the European Horizon programme. In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the ...