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Many proteins make up the G protein-coupled receptor family, including the κ-opioid receptor (above). Wikimedia Commons

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – what are G protein-coupled receptors?

By Wayne Leifert, CSIRO

Two US scientists have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the receptors that transmit signals such as light, taste or smell to cells. Robert Lefkowitz (of Duke University…
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Can you play a quantum game of tennis with just one court and one ball? Javmorcas

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, explained

By Andrea Morello

You may have heard that this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Serge Haroche (from College de France) and David J. Wineland (from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology…
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Elinor Ostrom, the only woman to have won a Nobel prize for economics, was most famous for challenging the idea of the “tragedy of the commons”: that in the absence of government intervention, people will overuse shared resources. acschweigert

The grand philosopher of the Commons: in memory of Elinor Ostrom

By Matthew Rimmer

The grand philosopher of the Commons, Elinor Ostrom, passed away on the 12th June 2012. She was a brilliant, creative polymath; a theoretician of fine precision and great intellectual power; a deviser…
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Nobel Prize in Economics winners Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent: in the neoclassic mold. AAP

Why does neoclassical thinking still dominate economics?

By Damien Cahill

The Sveriges Riksbank’s Prize in Economic Sciences – or the Nobel prize in economics – awarded last week to Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims– implicitly claims that economics is a science. But how…
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Joint Nobel Prize in Economics winners Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent have contributed a body of work over decades. AAP

Economists' lifetime of work honoured with Nobel prize

By Andrew John, Melbourne Business School

Princeton University professor Christopher Sims and New York University economist Thomas Sargent have been jointly named the 2011 winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics (or, for the purists, the Sveriges…

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