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Postdoctoral research is the probably the most complex, stimulating, and harrowing phase of a scientist's career. Many...

A patent attorney and former immunologist examines his career transition and offers advice to scientists interested in a career in patent law.

We present a selection of our best articles on making the transition from the scientific bench to the legal one.

Got something to say about starting or moving through a career in science? Here's your chance to let friends and colleagues know what's on your mind.

After the blush of first love is gone, Rachel Ruhlen digs deep to find passion for her work.

A new book diagnoses America's so-called skills gap and tells how it can easily be fixed.

NIH is seeking feedback from the community on how best to improve graduate and postdoctoral training.

While opportunities in computer science are likely to be strong in the coming years, there's another area with lots of science-related jobs: health care.

E. O. Wilson says that only in a few fields do scientists need serious mathematical chops.

Postdoc Huajun Zhao, 42, is in custody on "a single count of economic espionage," reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
 

When starting a new job, it's important to give some thought to your working style and how it's likely to fit with your new boss.

If there isn't good personal chemistry between you and the company, a job offer can be an offer of entrapment.

 

Is there really such a thing as a perfect postdoc? That exquisite transitional period during which you move from peon...

I want to be able to proudly say to someone that I am a "fill in the blank" and not cringe afterward.

"We're interested both in papers that identify a new feature of a disease or a new mechanism by which disease is regulated and studies that investigate the mechanism behind a response to an experimental drug or vaccine that's already in use." --Heather Van Epps

According to science historian Jon Agar, Margaret Thatcher's scientific training had a significant influence on her political career

Writing an effective research plan is tricky—and important.

“My interest has always been in language structure, the grammar of language,” Axelrod says. “So many different ways to talk about the world, it just makes you think how brilliant we are as human beings.”

Incoming African-American students express interest in the sciences, but their rate of attrition is high.

Science Careers looks at the pros and cons for young scientists to take part in interactive peer review processes both as authors and reviewers.