For decades now, many physicists have pursued the hope that equations involving an especially tiny “string” could provide the theory that solves nature’s ultimate subatomic mysteries.

A new theory, that explains how light and matter interact at the quantum level has enabled researchers to define for the first time the precise shape of a single photon. A new theory, that ...

How cells prioritize restoring amino acids when supply is limited is unknown. Here, using budding yeast, the authors build an economic framework to explain prioritization strategies and find that ...

Attachment styles—secure, avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized—impact relationship dynamics. Attachment theory informs therapy, parenting, and education but faces cultural and stability-related ...

Promotes lively engagement with topics in contemporary global politics Spans topics from analytical philosophy to the cultural construction of political theory Covers women’s and gender studies, ...

Classical conditioning theory, discovered by Russian physiologist and Nobel prize winner Ivan Pavlov, was central to behaviorism’s success. Pavlovian conditioning, as it was sometimes known, focused ...

Social Theory & Health gathers contributions from all relevant disciplines in medicine and the social sciences to report on current high-level discussion and controversy over the capabilities and ...

Critical race theory has become a topic of fierce political debate in the US in recent months. The conflict has most prominently played out in public school districts, as parents, teachers and ...