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After decades of blind faith, educators are finally beginning to investigate what makes for a good research experience.

Successful diversity programs level the playing field for women and minorities by addressing their needs and teaching undergraduates the unwritten rules of academic science.

The National Unions of Students in Europe has long campaigned for easier mobility--of students, degrees, and scholarships.

Figuring out what works is vitally important to the country, say U.S. educators. Each year, hundreds of thousands of U.S. students get their only exposure to science in an intro class--and most leave without understanding how science works or with any desire to take further courses.

Psychologists share tips for figuring out what's sapping your enthusiasm—and how to get it back.

Research shows that large admissions preferences stymie studies in science and technical subjects.

The ACS report on graduate and postdoc training goes where NIH's workforce working group didn't, recommending limiting Ph.D. production among other bold measures.

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.

One of the last sessions at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting looked at transformative research and the factors that facilitate it—or don't.

A recent NSF report finds that efforts to improve the representation of women, minorities, and people with disabilities in science and engineering are slow going.

Investigations by The Guardian newspaper uncover disparities in the rates at which whites and minorities are admitted to competitive programs at Cambridge and Oxford universities.
 

Computer science veteran Ed Lazowska argues that his field is poised to dominate careers in the sciences.