When Nobel prize winner Dr. Carol W. Greider first made her breakthrough discovery in 1984, she put on Springsteen and "danced and danced and danced." But she's serious right now, especially about the issue of sexism in science.

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded this morning to two American academics, one of whom, Elinor Ostrom, is the first female to win the award out of the sixty-two individuals who have received the prize previously.