Ashoke Sen, an acclaimed theoretical physicist hailing from Kolkata, received the prestigious Oskar Klein Medal in 2026. His ...

Physicist Ashoke Sen has been awarded the Oskar Klein Medal, becoming the first Indian to receive this honor. He is ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. String theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a ...

Modern string theory postulates that the elementary constituents of matter are tiny one-dimensional, string-like objects ...

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String theory has long been touted as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the universe, with elementary particles and forces described as vibrations of tiny threads of ...

String theory is having another bad week on the internet with feuds roiling on the social media platform X. François Chollet ...

The idea of String Theory is that our Universe came from a higher-dimensional, more symmetric, more complex state with an enormous number of degrees of freedom. In order for String Theory to be solved ...

Indian physicist Ashoke Sen has become the first Indian to receive the 2026 Oskar Klein Medal for his pioneering contributions to string theory, gravity and black-hole physics. Professor at ICTS-TIFR, ...

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