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"You can't turn the money on and just watch it regenerate itself," says Michael Pivovaroff.

“Our colliders are like time machines for physicists,” says Young-Kee Kim, the deputy director of Fermilab. “In a sense, we are creating early universes in our accelerators.”

If successful, Jackson’s current mission of developing a more secure method of transferring information using a single photon would revolutionize information technology.

"We can basically go into a terrorist's apartment and confirm that he had in his possession nuclear material."

My internship experience validated my belief that a scientist can do great things outside the laboratory.

In her work with Native communities, Hiza Redsteer engages with Native youth, modeling a powerful way they can contribute to their communities: by becoming scientists.

Duties might include tracking and analyzing foreign weapons systems and capabilities; coding and maintaining weapon system simulations; C and C++ programming; keeping tabs on foreign threat capabilities against ground, naval, air, and space weapon systems; or maintaining contacts with counterparts elsewhere in the intelligence community and in government and industry.

"We complain that these decisions are being made in a vacuum without significant scientific or engineering input. Well, the way to fix that is for scientists and engineers to get involved in the policy process." --Joseph Helble, dean and professor, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

"Clarity is a gift." --Micella Phoenix DeWhyse

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

The agency has updated its grant proposal guide, but its new use of "products" in the biosketch, in place of publications, is ambiguous.

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

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

The House Judiciary Committee invited experts to discuss the effects of high-skill immigration on the U.S. workforce, but there was little talk about what employers actually need.

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

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.

Lawyers, like scientists, struggle to find jobs.

Once you've thought hard about your skills, interests, and values, it's time to narrow the range of career options you ought to consider.

Underrepresented minorities increase their share of faculty posts at 2-year colleges, while Asians rise at 4-year institutions and in industry.