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A new finding says black scientists win NIH R01 grants less often than whites; here's how they can improve the odds.

A newly Shuttle-less NASA is trying to figure out how many astronauts to recruit.

Who better than Nobel Prize–winning scientists to offer advice for scoring science's top prize for yourself?

Scientists studying the physics of living systems utilize an NSF initiative to expand their network and make it easier to find jobs.

Our correspondent reports from the Neuroscience 2011 meeting in Washington, D.C.

Graduate students need to decide whether to spend time replicating other scientists' data.

Kimberly Powers's epidemiological research on HIV helped set the stage for this year's Science Breakthrough of the Year.

A new NIH center aims to set the national agenda on translational research, but budget constraints mean not much change for now.

As big-pharma jobs disappear, pharma scientists are landing at start-ups, launching their own, or joining academia.

Scientists working with patient-advocacy groups need to set legal and ethical guidelines so interactions can be mutually beneficial.

The scientists who founded the National Postdoctoral Association 10 years ago say the experience helped their careers.

Drug development companies are now hiring more computational biologists, creating an abundance of high-paying jobs.

Today, NPA co-founder Karen Christopherson is principal scientist at a unit of Pfizer.

For scientists who study conflict's motivations and consequences, the brain is the battlefield that matters.

An NIH committee recommends overhauling training, increasing postdoc pay, and improving and expanding staff scientist positions.

A national STEM workforce conference suggests numerous plans to boost STEM education and training, but few to make jobs more desirable.

A few universities are teaching physics students quantitative finance skills, but some observers think that isn't a good idea.

Winners of NIH's Director’s Early Independence Awards share the trials and successes of starting their own labs immediately after graduating.

After years of layoffs, drug companies are turning to the youngest Ph.D. scientists for fresh ideas.

Graduate students' pressures make them especially prone to depression, but small changes can help.