Top prize for 'light' inventor
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A Japanese scientist who invented a sustainable form of light is awarded the Millennium Technology Prize.
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Scientists from across the globe gather to learn more about the ways in which light can be used in medicine.
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US scientists David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczeck win the Nobel physics prize for their insights into the deep structure of matter.
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IBM&#39;s Blue Gene/L takes the top prize, proving it&#39;s not the size of your computer, but the number of teraflops. In the computing drag-race, IBM&#39;s new Blue Gene/L is greased lightning.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY -- engineering substances down to billionths of a meter in size -- holds out such promise of providing super-strong materials or desalinating water inexpensively that no one wants to put a red light in its way. But there are enough safety questions to justify more yellow lights than either industry or government has yet deployed.
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The man who led the team that created Dolly the sheep is among the scientists recognised in the New Year Honours.
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Researchers said on Friday they have invented an antenna that captures visible light in much the same way that radio antennas capture radio waves.
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The light bulb Thomas Edison invented 125 years ago is getting more than a make-over. The government is pulling the plug on it.
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Squid Labs' Saul Griffith is among 24 luminaries to be handed a MacArthur Fellowship -- a $500,000 award for innovators, more commonly referred to as the "genius grant."
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By Jia Hepeng  Ten scientists have won the top award, of 5 million yuan ($649,350)  4.5 million yuan ($584,400) for research and 500,000 yuan ($64,900) as personal reward for their efforts, since China started giving the National Supreme Scientific and Technological Award since 1999.
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Bestride this An amateur cryptographer from Germany who beat the worldâs first programmable digital computer Colossus in a code-breaking challenge has been honoured for his achievement.â¦
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Two US researchers yesterday shared the Â£760,000 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for their discovery of the molecular machinery behind the scent of lilac in the spring, the bouquet of a vintage burgundy or the smell of napalm in the morning.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - A new FDA-approved device that uses light stimulation enlarges the visual field of patients who are left with vision impairments after stroke, researchers announced here at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2007.
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Â· Northern Lights tops poll of Carnegie winnersÂ· Author says award is most important he has received
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MIT scientists perfect the use of light beams as a tweezer-like tool for manipulating microscopic objects.
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A light source 10 billion times brighter than the Sun could soon be helping scientists to read ancient manuscripts.
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The man who patented the "comb-over" hairstyle for covering the heads of bald men is one of 10 winners at the 2004 Ig Nobel awards.