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

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

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

With her border collie's help, a young scientist studies an endangered turtle and works to improve education in a Guatemalan village.

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

Noah Wilson-Rich started a company to support his work in bee immunity.

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

Australian postdoc Charmaine Tam shares tips on how to make it through this early phase of a research career.

Achieving independence as a researcher is a balancing act, requiring planning, on-the-job training, and diplomacy.

To help him write his dissertation, computer scientist Fred Stutzman created an app that blocks online distractions.

A protégé pays tribute to the humanity and resilience of immunologist Alan Houghton.

NASCAR is hiring mechanical engineers and aerodynamics scientists to shave milliseconds off lap times and push racecars to their limits.

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

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

The labor economist has worked for years behind the scenes, but this year she went public.

John Long, his collaborators, and his Vassar undergraduates study fish biomechanics and behavior.

This year, astronomer Jane Luu won two of the top prizes in astronomy. So why is she working as an engineer?

A husband-and-wife team studies the brain areas that allow us to feel what others feel.

French epidemiologist Emilie Counil studies the health implications of environmental and workplace carcinogen exposure to help inform health policies.

Sports biomechanics researcher Barry Mason works on improving wheelchair design for basketball and rugby athletes.