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As a prestigious Princeton fellowship came to an end, Ethan Perlstein decided to strike out on his own.

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

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

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

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

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

A more interactive peer-review process can help authors build recognition, increase their impact, and win priority for their scientific work.

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

With good long-term funding prospects and attractive salaries, Germany has become a major contender in the global competition among nations to draw in top talent.

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.

In almost every work environment the ability to influence others is an essential job skill.

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

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

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

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

Sometimes, accepting a contract position is what an employee needs to jump-start a career.

"Andrea treats me like someone who’s intelligent enough to run a laboratory experiment by himself, but she’s always there for questions. She’ll have a long conversation with a former student who’s visiting from med school, or talk to us about our futures, or hang out and discuss TV. She’s your friend, and she cares about you." --Matthew Mansh

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

“What most pharma look to me for is my 10 years of experience in pharmacogenomic clinical drug trial design and result interpretation,” says Judes Poirier, director of McGill University’s Centre for Studies in Aging.