Nobel Prize

Prize winners developed auction formats used in markets for electricity, carbon credits, and radio spectrum allocation

Selection of just two scientists will stir controversy, given patent fight over genome editor’s discovery

Prize winners showed black holes were real and that giant ones loom at the center of galaxies

“Landmark achievement” in battle against viral infections helped protect the blood supply and led to development of effective drugs

Dylan lyrics are common in the scientific literature

U.S.-based researchers described how conflicting interests can find agreement in a contract

Laureates developed basic building blocks for molecular machines

With advanced math, the laureates helped understand unusual phases of matter such as superconductors, superfluids, and thin magnetic fields

With the announcement of the 2016 Nobel Prize winners around the corner, we revisit some articles from the archives that offer lessons from laureates

Barry Barish made LIGO happen, but he hasn’t shared the glory

Observation by Japanese and Canadian teams proved ghostly particle have mass

Nobel laureate Richard J. Roberts shares his thoughts on how to build a career in scientific research

Hard work, early independence, and playfulness were instrumental in Nobel laureate Tim Hunt’s success

Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner attributes his career success to luck, but we think that other factors were involved

Three economists probed the mechanisms underlying investment markets