After breaking his leg in a backstage skateboarding accident in April, Billy Strings returned to the stage Sunday night (May 31) at Les Claypool’s concert in Detroit. The celebrated bluegrass musician ...

String theory attempts to unify general relativity and quantum theory. Popular in the 1990s, string theory fell out of favor as it failed to provide testable predictions and required ten dimensions ...

Artwork illustrating how string theory emerges from a few simple mathematical assumptions about particle collisions. Credit: AI-generated art by Clifford Cheung. Physicists searching for a better ...

If you could take an apple and break it into smaller and smaller parts, you would find molecules, then atoms, followed by subatomic particles like protons and the quarks and gluons that make them up.

[Originally published 4/19/26; Updated 4/20/26, 5/9/26]: Billy Strings broke his leg on Saturday while attempting a trick on his skateboard backstage at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA.

Abstract: Recently, the increasing complexity of smart contracts and their interactions has led to more sophisticated strategies for executing attacks. Hackers often need to deploy attacker contracts ...

"At least I didn’t hit my head or break my wrist or something," said Strings on Instagram as he shared the rescheduled tour dates Jack Irvin has worked at PEOPLE since 2022. He covers and edits daily ...

Not a way you want to end a show. As an artist, there is no denying that embarrassing things will happen to you while on stage. It might happen early in your career, or you could go years and years ...

On Tuesday, Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, became the first senior administration official to resign over the Iran war. He resigned not because the war is a debacle, but ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human brain? If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our ...

The language is expressive enough to represent a wide variety of string manipulation tasks that end-users struggle with. We describe an algorithm based on several novel concepts for synthesizing a ...