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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.
 

Noah Wilson-Rich started a company to support his work in bee immunity.

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

With good long-term funding prospects and attractive salaries, Germany has become a major contender in the global competition among nations to draw in top talent.

Science Careers talks to Eric Kaplan, co-executive producer of the CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory, about his work on the show.

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

Australian postdoc Charmaine Tam shares tips on how to make it through this early phase of a research career.

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.

India is pushing science forward with nationwide initiatives, offering new career opportunities for scientists around the world.

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.

Reconfiguring a professional and personal life takes serious planning. Here are five pointers from professors with recent sabbatical experience.

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.

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

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