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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.
 

While opportunities in computer science are likely to be strong in the coming years, there's another area with lots of science-related jobs: health care.

After the blush of first love is gone, Rachel Ruhlen digs deep to find passion for her work.

NIH is seeking feedback from the community on how best to improve graduate and postdoctoral training.

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

The university disputes the newspaper's account of a conflict involving claims of misconduct and an apparent suicide.
 

Investigations by The Guardian newspaper uncover disparities in the rates at which whites and minorities are admitted to competitive programs at Cambridge and Oxford universities.
 

You may be comfortable talking with scientists, but interviews with Human Resources are a different beast.

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.

NIH branches out, presenting a videocast on interviewing for jobs beyond the ivory tower.

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."

A panel of workforce experts at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting urged NIH to be more aggressive in fixing biomedical workforce training.

In almost every work environment the ability to influence others is an essential job skill.

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 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.