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

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

Postdoc Huajun Zhao, 42, is in custody on "a single count of economic espionage," reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
 

Fátima Al-Shahrour is working to interpret the genome to help select more effective drugs for cancer patients.

As maps have changed, so have mapmakers.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Managing an intimate relationship at work requires awareness of potential pitfalls and a delicate balance of privacy and openness.

The American Chemical Society boldly and insightfully examines what's wrong with graduate education—and how to fix it.

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

NASCAR is hiring mechanical engineers and aerodynamics scientists to shave milliseconds off lap times and push racecars to their limits.

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

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

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

Despite what grad school admissions committees seem to believe, outside interests are good.