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A British scientist is going to prison for 3 months for falsifying data.

"In the research world, a scientist aims to generate results and publications; in the servicing world, a scientist aims to help the scientist customer achieve results."

"They think of us as scruffy and geeky. In return, we think of them as stupid and greedy."

"Until now, only rare exceptions gave scientists a chance to enter the schoolteacher career path."

For behavioral scientists considering a career in public polling research, it helps to have a fascination with numbers.

Science Careers talks to three young investigators who contributed to this year's monumental discovery.

"Forensic science is a vibrant field of science in which emerging new techniques are swiftly applied."

"Nowadays," she continued, "people have much more freedom in their personal lives and professional choices than they did when they were sold to an apprenticeship in the old days, and yet, at the same time, they're buying into this almost feudal system in which once you dedicate a certain number of years, you are bound by the amount of time you've spent." --Allegra Goodman

"Programs should provide all NRSA trainees with additional professional development skills and career guidance."

Although the editor should always strive to preserve the author's style, a lot can be achieved by editing out unnecessary verbiage.

"I do very advanced programming that targets very advanced research and development that is extremely technically challenging, and clearly having a degree and background in physics makes me the right person to be doing this," says James Pond, co-founder of the software company Lumerical Solutions."