NEW YORK — Being a scientist is a noble profession, but it has its darker side. From fierce competition to plagiarism to outright scientific fraud, scientists are far from immune to the sordid. Full story
A new cache of letters released 50 years after Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick and James Watson won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of DNA's structure reveals that not everyone agreed on which prize the trio should receive. Full story
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A letter by Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, outlining the Nobel Prize-winning achievement to his young son is expected to fetch as much as $2 million when it is sold at auction in April, Christie's said on Tuesday. Full story
Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Yuri Milner are launching a new foundation with designs on the Nobel Prizes, with CNBC's Jon Fortt.
On Sunday's Up w/ Chris Hayes, we'll continue our extensive coverage of the government's use of drone strikes and its "targeted killing" program, focusing on the Justice Department white paper obtained this week by NBC News, which outlines the administration's legal rationale for giving the presiden Full story
Some members of Congress, and even Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says the president should be ready to "mint that coin!" But does it make economic sense? NBC’s Kevin Tibbles reports.
Rachel Maddow shares the biographical detail of British researcher and newly awarded Nobel laureate, John Gurdon, that his high school science teacher thought he would not succeed as a scientist and trying to teach him was a waste of time.
"We've got a middle class that has been struggling in terms of income for a long time," comments Michael Spence, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, discussing the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics and Sociology at University of Chicago Gary Becker listens as Co-Chairman of Council on Foreign Relations and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin speaks during a discussion titled "A Conversation with Gary Becker, David Rubinstein and Robert Rubin"
Nobel laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi attends the seventh Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies in Ulan Bator, April 29, 2013. REUTERS/Mareike Guensche (MONGOLIA - Tags: POLITICS)
The Nobel Prize medal won by Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA is seen in this undated handout photo. The medal sold for $2.27 million at auction on Thursday, a day after a letter in which Crick outlined the achievement to his young son became the most expensive letter ever auctioned when it
Kendra Crick pose with her father Michael Crick as he holds the 1962 Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to his father Dr. Francis Harry Compton Crick, Wednesday, April 10, 2013 in New York. On Thursday, the molecular biologist's 1962 Nobel Prize medal in physiology or medicine and diploma will be sol
