Researchers from MIT were able to light a 60watt light bulb wirelessly from a distance of about 2 meters. If the MIT scientists have their way, in a few-year’s time we will all be charging our cellular phones, MP3 players ...

Quietly under construction since 2005, scientists from the University of Delaware in the U.S. backed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) are building the world largest “telescope” under hundreds of feet of Polar ice. The new instrument will help scientists ...

Construction of another part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator at CERN in Switzerland, is nearing completion. The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is one of the LHC project’s four large particle detectors. It will help ...

The Barrel Toroid superconducting magnet is part of the ATLAS detector, one of the four big particle experiments on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently under construction at the CERN Laboratory in Switzerland. Among the questions ATLAS will focus on ...

Nobel Prize in Physics – According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the 2006 Nobel in Physics will be awarded to John C. Mather of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (on the left) and George F. Smoot of ...