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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.
 

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."

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.

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

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

Identifying and addressing self-confidence issues can help early-career scientists make swifter progress.

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

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

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

"Trying to get tenure in that department, I perceived, was going to be a battle." --Dawn Del Carlo.

Here are six examples of behavioral scientists who have stepped off the academic path into some interesting territory.

This is the first time researchers have been able to connect brain activity with a real-life consumer decision.