String theory aims to explain all fundamental forces and particles in the universe—essentially, how the world operates on the smallest scales. Though it has not yet been experimentally verified, work ...

Little-understood black hole phenomena could be string-theory "fuzzballs," scientists say. The math is still emerging, but the right instruments could maybe detect the fuzzballs. Black holes are ...

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Scientists at the famed Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) may be too preoccupied to ever look up at the sky they are studying; they are usually crouched over the sort of math that makes ...