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.

Many scenes in NOVA's miniseries "The Elegant Universe" draw directly upon the book by physicist Brian Greene on which the series is based. With its lively descriptions, analogies, and illustrations, ...

NOVA introduces string theory and Albert Einstein's dream of unifying the forces that underlie all phenomena in the physical universe. reviews the quest for unification, the search for a single theory ...

NEW YORK — What could account for how the universe ticks? Could it be love? Money? Or, maybe, infinitesimal quivering strands whose vibration patterns define all the universe’s forces and matter? That ...

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Few prime-time TV shows would be willing to take on the bizarre realm of quantum mechanics and general relativity, string theory and 11-dimensional physics. But that’s just what “Nova” and physicist ...

"The Fabric Of The Cosmos," a four-hour series based on the book by renowned physicist and author Brian Greene, takes us to the frontiers of physics to see how scientists are piecing together the most ...

World-renowned scientist and author Brian Greene will present the first Bruce MacLaren Distinguished Lecture at Eastern Kentucky University on Thursday. Greene, whose talk is part of the university’s ...

One of the most ambitious and exciting theories ever proposed—one that may be the long-sought "theory of everything," which eluded even Einstein—gets a masterful, lavishly computer-animated ...