Progress toward a real, functioning warp drive?

For once, the answer is actually yes.  Story over at Discovery News.
Mind you, this is exactly Step Two of about a 100,000 step process (Alcubierre having made Step One in 1994), all of which could wind up being along a scientific and engineering dead-end path.
But dammit, they're trying.  And they're getting somewhere.  White and his people at NASA Johnson are now working on a table-top, baby-step experiment.  And we may all live to see this amount to something.  How cool is that?

Best news I've seen in a while.