San Francisco—Bell Labs, the research division of the “old” AT&T, came up with some of the most groundbreaking inventions of the 20 th Century: the transistor, communication satellites, fiber optics, ...

The world-famous mother of invention, Bell Labs, was itself a child of that mother of all monopolies, Ma Bell. And though Ma Bell in its old form is long gone, the laboratory soldiers on. Martha ...

An industry-wide initiative to reduce the energy consumption of telecoms networks was unveiled on Monday by Bell Labs and industry and academic organisations including Telefonica, Freescale ...

Bell Labs was a legendary place, an industrial lab in the outer suburbs of New York where thousands of scientists, working nine to five, changed the world’s technological history. Their inventions ...

Scientists at Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, have found a way to peer deep inside a semiconductor and create an image of a single impurity atom in silicon, a ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The 2 million-square-foot building where Bell Labs scientists helped launch modern cellular networks before it became one of the country’s largest vacant office buildings is ...

In 1964, a pair of Bell Labs researchers in New Jersey pointed the world’s largest radio telescope to the skies and unwittingly stumbled upon one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th Century: ...

Bell Labs on Wednesday said it fired a researcher for "falsifying and fabricating" results in 16 papers published in scientific journals since 1998. Bell Labs spokeswoman Mary Ward identified the ...

Inside Bell Labs almost 70 years ago, the invention that defined the 20th century was born: The transistor. On a recent sunny April day here in the present, Gizmodo had the rare opportunity to tour ...

Bell Labs has created a tiny new transistor and discovered a way to whip it up in a laboratory beaker. On Thursday, the research arm of Lucent Technologies unveiled a new organic transistor--made from ...

Last Wednesday, temporary workers arrived at Union Square for a 7:30 a.m. departure. The bus they boarded was bound for Bell Labs’ Holmdel Complex in New Jersey. Some snoozed on the hour-ish journey, ...