New Jersey is the historic home of Bell Labs and its global headquarters, but Nokia Bell Labs now operates research centers ...

Bell Labs had one big advantage: for many years it was part of a highly profitable monopoly, so perhaps the drive to make money right away was less than at other labs.

Bell Labs would continue to do the foundational research that pays the bills, but there were also bigger, more pressing issues to think about beyond improving fiber optic cables.

Bell Labs VP Theodore Sizer is doing some of that creating, such as the "light radio." Instead of 25,000 employees, today Bell Labs employs 1,500. The scope of their research is narrower, ...

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 ...

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

As with all such corporate sponsored films, the Bell Labs series was intended to educate and inform the public while reminding them of the intellectual prowess of the research arm of AT&T, aptly ...

Bell Labs' researchers (left to right) John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain won the Nobel Prize in 1956 for their invention of the transistor. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

In this video we will show how Japan will generate electricity from snow The era of solar energy began in 1950 when Bell Labs ...

Walter Lincoln Hawkins, seen here, and other other notable Black Bell Labs scientists will be part of a technology showcase planned for the lobby of the company’s new headquarters in New Brunswick.

When Louis Brus arrived at Bell Labs in Murray Hill in 1973 for his first day of work, the complex was so full they had to place him on the fifth floor, in the attic, inside one of the storage ...