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

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

"I produce 10 data points that completely undermine what everybody thinks they know about the archaeological record here. It was really important and really interesting, and almost nobody believed me." -Joan Brenner Coltrain

The agency has updated its grant proposal guide, but its new use of "products" in the biosketch, in place of publications, is ambiguous.

A recent analysis in neuroscience urges caution both in reading the literature and in designing your own experiments.

Identifying and addressing self-confidence issues can help early-career scientists make swifter progress.

Fátima Al-Shahrour is working to interpret the genome to help select more effective drugs for cancer patients.

At the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston on Thursday, Mark Frankel, the Director of the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights, and Law Program at AAAS, made a case for scientists to think more deeply about their social responsibilities.

Canada is now moving toward high-skilled immigration based on employment, according to the newsmagazine Maclean’s.
 

This common interview question can be dangerous if you don't know how to handle it.

Forming collaborations between academia, industry, government agencies, and private organizations can offer benefits to all parties.

There is often more to a job in a nanotech company than ordinary R&D work.

"I think that looking at the observable effects of diversity on a group’s performance is a really fruitful way to get a sense of what diversity really means." --Samuel R. Sommers

By picking up the fundamentals of biology, computer scientists are contributing to the life sciences.

The best and most popular stories of 2012, as chosen by readers and editors.

Setting up successful international collaborations is about leveling the field, especially when working with partners in developing countries.

Crowd-funding could prove to be just a niche funding source, but it could also end up changing how science is done.

This cognitive scientist/opera singer learned to love science and music separately before figuring out how to bring them together.

"I feel like I'm making a useful contribution not only to the company but to the environment," says chemical engineer John Ma of Dow Chemical Canada.

“We are looking for people who have a history of publishing and presenting. If the résumé doesn’t have those two key elements, they’ll be at a competitive disadvantage.” - Ron Webb, Procter and Gamble