Physicists in France may be leading the way to a new generation of IT wizardry after revealing on Sunday they had used ultra-fast lasers that could accelerate storage and retrieval of data on hard discs by up to 100,000 times.

Backgrounder: Recent winners of Nobel Prize for physics STOCKHOLM, Oct.

Nobel prizes awarded in Sweden OSLO, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The award ceremony of this year's Nobel Prizes was held in Stockholm on Monday, according to reportsreaching here. Two laureates are absent from the ceremony for reasons of health.

European Commission congratulates European winners of Nobel scienceprizes BRUSSELS, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- The European Commission Thursday congratulated four European scientists who have been awarded the Nobel prizes for medicine, physics and chemistry.

3rd LD,Writethru: German Gerhard Ertl wins Nobel Prize in chemistry STOCKHOLM, Oct 10 (Xinhua) -- German scientist Gerhard Ertl wonthe 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces.