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"This is a great time to be an economist. Interesting, socially relevant, and empirically grounded research is now widely appreciated in the discipline." --Christina Fong

Because policymakers often are unfamiliar with the environmental science involved, a decision analyst serves as a conduit to translate the data into a useful framework.

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

Forgoing alarmist pronouncements, a National Academies committee makes sensible suggestions about how to address the workforce needs of the Department of Defense.

Many Spanish trainees have been forced to start their doctorates without financial help.

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

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.

Experts discussed how mentoring differs for minorities and how it can be tweaked to ensure that scientists don't hit a "mentoring glass ceiling."

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

Recent political pronouncements would be laughable if they weren't potentially so harmful.

So far in her career, Nadia Moore has toured several major subfields of toxicology.

"I foresee a future battle for survival between religion and science-based technologies of immortality." --Bill Bainbridge

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.

In Vienna, Eastern and central European scientists gathered to network and learn how to be more competitive for ERC grants.

As maps have changed, so have mapmakers.

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

“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.”

A more interactive peer-review process can help authors build recognition, increase their impact, and win priority for their scientific work.