Israeli chemist Daniel Schectman's discovery of how atoms fit together inside of crystals changed the way chemists look at solid matter.

On the craggy bluffs of Mistaken Point in Newfoundland, the wind and waves are licking away the rocks to reveal the oldest animal fossils on Earth. Locals are promoting the fossils, and the creatures are drawing a crowd. And now they are an economic engine for an area that had hit tough times.

T.S. Eliot wrote in a poem that the world will end not with a bang but a whimper. He was spot on. The Nobel Prize for physics will go to three scientists who discovered that, after the Big Bang, the universe has been expanding at an accelerating rate.

Guy Raz interviews Alison Peck, deputy project scientist for ALMA — the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array project in Chile. ALMA is expected to be the world's biggest and most powerful observatory in the world.

Conservation has long been a part of Namibia's story – but not always to the benefit of wildlife or people.

Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. The three will share $1.5 million.