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Americans Win Economics Nobel For Interpreting Stock Prices

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces the winners of the 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in Stockholm Monday. The prize went to U.S. professors Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller. Claudio Bresciani/AP hide caption

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Americans Win Economics Nobel For Interpreting Stock Prices

October 14, 2013 • The Royal Swedish Academy honors U.S. professors Eugene F. Fama, Robert J. Shiller, and Lars Peter Hansen "for their empirical analysis of asset prices."

What You Need To Know About The Group That Won The Nobel

U.N. chemical weapons experts carry samples collected on Aug. 28 from a site of an alleged chemical weapons attack near the Syrian capital Damascus. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is dismantling Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, was awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Reuters /Landov hide caption

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Parallels

What You Need To Know About The Group That Won The Nobel

October 11, 2013 • The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which won the peace prize Friday, is currently working in Syria to eliminate chemical weapons there. It's also spent years working to destroy the stockpiles in the U.S. and Russia, the countries with the largest arsenals in the world.

Nobel Winners Decoded How Neurons And Cells Talk To Each Other

From left: Randy Schekman, Thomas Suedhof and James Rothman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Reuters /Landov hide caption

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Nobel Winners Decoded How Neurons And Cells Talk To Each Other

October 7, 2013 • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013 goes to three scientists for discovering how cells secrete hormones and neurotransmitters. The research provided sweeping insights into how the brain transmits signals, the immune system attacks pathogens and insulin gets into the bloodstream.

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Researchers From U.S., Germany, Share Nobel Prize For Medicine

October 7, 2013 • The trio was celebrated by the Nobel committee for unlocking a key mystery of cell function. The researchers "have revealed the exquisitely precise control system for the transport and delivery of cellular cargo," the committee says.

Book News: Did A Missing Testicle Make J.D. Salinger A Recluse?

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Book News: Did A Missing Testicle Make J.D. Salinger A Recluse?

September 5, 2013 • Also: Ladbrokes breaks down the favorites to win the Nobel Prize; Edward Albee on character; poet Natasha Trethewey on meeting Seamus Heaney.

The Secret To Genius? It Might Be More Chocolate

A Swiss cardiologist plots a cheeky graph that shows a country's chocolate consumption may predict its chances of winning a Nobel. John Loo/Flickr.com hide caption

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The Secret To Genius? It Might Be More Chocolate

October 12, 2012 • A cardiologist has some fun plotting how a country's chocolate consumption may predict Nobel prizes. The outlier, he notes, is that Sweden, the home of the Nobel, seems to get more than its share of the prizes.

The Secret To Genius? It Might Be More Chocolate

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Chemistry Nobel Goes To Scientists Who Studied Body's Receptors

This year's winners of the Chemistry Nobel: Robert Lefkowitz (left) and Brian Kobilka. NobelPrize.org hide caption

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Chemistry Nobel Goes To Scientists Who Studied Body's Receptors

October 10, 2012 • Because about half of all drugs act on the receptors that let humans sense their environment, the scientists' work has been incredibly important for the development of pharmaceuticals.

To This Agency, There's Only One Way To Operate: Precisely

NIST physicist and Nobel Prize-winner David Wineland adjusts an ultraviolet laser beam used to manipulate ions in a high-vacuum apparatus containing an "ion trap." These devices have been used to demonstrate the basic operations required for a quantum computer. Copyright Geoffrey Wheeler/National Institute of Standards and Technology hide caption

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To This Agency, There's Only One Way To Operate: Precisely

October 9, 2012 • David Wineland of the National Institute of Standards and Technology is one of this year's two Nobel physics winners. NIST is the federal agency known for keeping accurate time using the atomic clock, and Wineland's Nobel has implications for even more accurate time-keeping. But what else does NIST do?

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French And American Scientists Share Physics Nobel

October 9, 2012 • Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the United States have been honored for their work on the interaction between life and matter — in particular, the "fundamental interactions between light particles and matter."

Elinor Ostrom, First Woman To Win Nobel In Economics, Dies

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Elinor Ostrom, First Woman To Win Nobel In Economics, Dies

June 12, 2012 • Her work on commonly managed property was honored. In 2009, she told NPR about how as a young woman she wasn't allowed to study trigonometry because it was thought she would be "barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen." She died today. Ostrom was 78.

Elinor Ostrom, speaking with Michele Norris

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Nobel Laureate: 'I've Been Wrong So Often, I Don't Find It Extraordinary At All'

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Nobel Laureate: 'I've Been Wrong So Often, I Don't Find It Extraordinary At All'

May 8, 2012 • "I'm 101 at the moment," Ronald Coase told me. "I get older by the minute."

Nobel Laureate: 'I've Been Wrong So Often, I Don't Find It Extraordinary At All'

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Should Iceland Kill The Krona?

April 13, 2012 • Does it make sense for a country the size of Staten Island to have its own currency? Iceland wants to know.

Should Iceland Kill The Krona?

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Three Share Peace Nobel For Women's Rights Work

Left to right: Nobel Peace Prize laureates President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Liberian "peace warrior" Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen.

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Three Share Peace Nobel For Women's Rights Work

October 7, 2011 • Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Roberta Gbowee and Yemeni protest leader Tawakkul Karman are being honored.

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