
Oct 26 - By John Roach, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Baseball fans looking over the equipment list — balaclavas, tights, parkas, and hand warmers — are forgiven if they think the Phillies and Yankees are headed for a ski vacation.
Oct 6 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
Excerpts from the citation awarding the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics to Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Institute says Kao was honored for breakthroughs in fiber optics while Boyle and Smith were honored for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit.
Oct 5 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:

Oct 5 - By Malcolm Ritter, AP Science Writer
The next time you snap a digital photo and post it to Facebook, you can probably thank the three men who won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday.

Jun 16 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com

Jan 13 - By Winda Benedetti, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
One of the most inspired and imaginative games to come along in a while looks like it was plucked from a 5-year-old’s coloring book.
Dec 11 - By David Eggert, Associated Press Writer
The U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday chose Michigan State University for a $550 million cutting-edge nuclear physics research facility that could attract top scientists from around the world and boost the state's economy.
Oct 7 - By The Associated Press
Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:

Oct 7 - By Malcolm Ritter, AP Science Writer
Two Japanese scientists and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for theoretical advances that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of matter.

May 20 - By NBC Nightly News
The schedule is taking shape for the startup of the world’s biggest particle-smasher — and for the lawsuit seeking to shut it down.

Mar 28 - By NBC Nightly News
The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet.

Oct 9 - By Brian Bergstein, AP Technology Editor
The effect is called giant magnetoresistance, but it enables amazing things at the miniature level. Two European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their discoveries of the phenomenon, which spurred some of computing's most astonishing developments, from video-playing handheld devices to PCs whose storage capacity now seems all but limitless.

Oct 8 - By Matt Moore, Associated Press Writer
Two European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for a discovery that lets computers, iPods and other digital devices store reams of data on ever-shrinking hard drives.

Feb 12 - By David Shiga, New Scientist Writer
A map of the cosmic microwave background made by NASA's WMAP satellite shows density fluctuations in the early universe – regions of higher density were slightly warmer than voids. Similar maps by Planck may reveal the existence and shape of extra spatial dimensions (Image: NASA/WMAP Science Team)

Jan 31 - By Tom Simonite-102191, New Scientist Writer
Prior to the phase change, few pressure chains exist (Image: Robert Behringer / Duke University)

Nov 29 - By David Shiga, New Scientist Writer
Jets emerge from the vicinity of a black hole or neutron star, which orbits a massive regular star in the LS 5039 system. Some of the gamma rays produced in the system are transformed into particles of matter and antimatter through collisions with ultraviolet photons (Illustration: HESS Collaboration/R Hynes)

Oct 3 - By Matt Moore, Associated Press Writer
Americans John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe and deepen understanding of the origin of galaxies and stars.

Aug 11 - By Davide Castelvecchi, Valerie Jamieson, New Scientist Writer
LEE SMOLIN is no magician. Yet he and his colleagues have pulled off one of the greatest tricks imaginable. Starting from nothing more than Einstein's general theory of relativity, they have conjured up the universe. Everything from the fabric of space to the matter that makes up wands and rabbits emerges as if out of an empty hat.

Jun 20 - By Matt Slagle, AP Technology Writer
In a June 21 version of this story, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of Ageia Technologies Inc.'s co-founder, chairman and CEO. His name is Manju Hegde, not Hedge.