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Leonid Hurwicz of the University of Minnesota, Eric Maskin of Princeton and Roger Myerson of the University of Chicago share the prize. They were honored for laying the foundation of mechanism design theory.

Culture Lust rounds up some of San Diego's best, most interesting, and most surprising art stories from the weekend so you've got plenty of material for this week's water cooler chatter.

Members of Congress who are drafting climate change legislation see the announcement of former Vice President Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize as great news. They hope to get their bills passed by early next year, but there are still obstacles ahead.

Al Gore may be the big name getting the Nobel Peace Prize, but half of the award is going to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — or IPCC. The once obscure body is having its moment in the spotlight. Its thousands of scientists from around the globe can now say they got a piece of a Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to individuals and organizations. It has been given to 95 individuals and 20 organizations since its inception in 1901. Nearly two dozen of the laureates are from the United States. And an additional six are U.S. organizations.

Several researchers at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography are part of the panel sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Two thousand scientists worked on climate change research for the Un

Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.

Hear Rae Armantrout, UCSD professor and newly minted Pulitzer Prize winner, read one of her poems on KPBS and learn about Pat Metheny's latest project, Orchestrion.

German researcher Gerhard Ertl has won the 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Ertl developed new methods for studying the "surface chemistry" that is critical to everything from catalytic converters for cleaning up auto exhaust, to the chemical reactions that created the hole in the ozone layer.

Two scientists share this year's award in physics for discoveries that revolutionized computer memory. Albert Fert of France and Peter Grunberg of Germany independently discovered a phenomenon that relies on the spooky world of quantum mechanics to read data from computer disks.