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A leading attorney and a serial entrepreneur explain how to avoid potholes when reviewing consulting agreements with biomedical companies.

To achieve gender equality in science, shift men’s perceptions of what is professionally acceptable.

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

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

A new book diagnoses America's so-called skills gap and tells how it can easily be fixed.

The need for new treatments and a better understanding of brain disorders offer researchers an abundance of career opportunities. By Emma Hitt

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

Proficiently publishing scientific articles is among the attributes that determine academic success.

The overworked grad student seems to embody the most pointless aspects of graduate school.

Beijing and Shanghai are two cities at the forefront of Chinese science, offering scientists ample career opportunities. By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

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

Never mind answering questions—what questions should you ask at a job interview?

Figuring out what you know—and what you need to know—is essential in training for a science career.

Biopharmas that have fared well despite global economic turmoil have done so using various strategies—and by valuing and respecting the scientists who work for them.

The Internet and ubiquitous video are changing how science is done.

Most scientists continue to use tried-and-true paper lab notebooks, but electronic alternatives beckon some.

Video technology has the potential to dramatically improve the dissemination of lab protocols and techniques.

For academics who recognize that their discovery or innovation can be commercialized, it is key to find avenues to balance professorial and entrepreneurial activities. By Alaina G. Levine.

Introducing myIDP, the first comprehensive, online tool to help you choose and pursue a science career.

Overlong and insufficiently focused on available careers, traditional Ph.D. programs clearly need reform: What changes make sense?