Interesting Nature piece today on a provocative topic: The crop of new, big-money and Nobel-like science prizes (such as the recently announced Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences). Writer Zeeya Merali explores how these awards, in the words of one recent prize winner, could "become very influential and... have a positive impact, or they can be very dangerous.”
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