Articles by Yuen Yiu
The new laureates discovered the first planet orbiting a solar-type star and improved our understanding of how the universe evolved.
A next-generation atom smasher would cost billions of dollars. Europe and China both plan to build one, but scientists are debating if it's worth it.
We have combined the faces of more than 500 Nobel laureates to visualize the average winner of the Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, physics, and chemistry.
Explore the applications of state-of-the-art clocks -- and the math that describes their performance and limitations.
Researchers developed a way to weld pieces of brittle ceramics together using a laser that fires a million times per second.
Researchers can now measure individual phonons -- a single unit of sound.
New research reveals the physics behind the darkening of yellow pigments in old paintings.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected changes in Jupiter’s magnetic field, making it the first planet known to share this feature with Earth.
A new paper proposes two experiments to test if the steadiest components in physics are really kind of shifty after all.
Researchers develop a new technique that uses artificial intelligence to summarize long scientific papers.
Super high-pressure experiments take science to extremes.
Researchers embrace the wobbliness of soft materials to make squishy robots.