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In science, sometimes, mistakes are not merely good, they're extraordinary.

Norman Matloff says that passing the Senate's immigration reform bill would be a "historical watershed event," and not in a good way.

A desire to prove to disadvantaged students that they, too, could be successful carried Knatokie Ford through her graduate program at Harvard.

In 38 videos, the course presents practical information on establishing and sustaining a strong safety culture.

More open methods of peer review offer advantages and disadvantages for both authors and reviewers.

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

In the debate over immigration reform, some voices speak louder than others.

An open letter calls for funding agencies and hiring institutions to evaluate scientists by their research and not what journals they publish in.

Often, the people who get noticed are the ones who get hired.

In the United Kingdom, recent Ph.D. recipients have weathered the recession in better shape than most.

In scientific fields, graduate school debt is higher for minorities than it is for whites.

myIDP is a free, Web-based career-planning tool that was created to help graduate students and postdocs in the sciences define and pursue their career goals.

As traditional disciplines become more data-focused, traditional scientists need to become more "pi-shaped".

Institutional fellowships offer recent Ph.D.s the chance to leap right into running their own labs.

The family of Richard Din is suing San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center for failing to adequately enforce infectious-agent safety protocols.

The systems biologist and trauma surgeon talks about treating patients after the Boston Marathon bombings and about his career.

The UCLA chemistry professor will be tried on four felony counts related to the death of lab assistant Sheri Sangji in a laboratory fire.

NIH has released its sequestration operating plan for 2013, ScienceInsider reports.

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.