careers

Setting up a laboratory comes with no guide. Tina Lasisi, who recently started her own lab, offered tips on how to do it successfully.

According to Erin Schuman, science driven by fascination rather than tools will guide new discoveries.

Getting it wrong can harm the very creatures that scientists are trying to protect.

Scientists, students, and administrative staff are working to bring about a cultural shift to mitigate the impact of research on the environment.

All members of the scientific community must commit to taking the risks needed to change how research is shared and evaluated.

On average, researchers’ impact dropped by one-half to two-thirds over their careers.

An influential paper on amyloid protein and Alzheimer’s disease potentially fabricated data. Why did it take 16 years to flag?

The journal’s executive director speaks with The Scientist about what it hopes to accomplish with its unusual new publishing model.

For more than 50 years, the program has served as a pipeline to get more scholars of color into academic institutions.

The United States gets roughly an eighth of its tenure-track professors from just five institutions, according to an analysis of nearly 300,000 faculty.

Other winners of this year’s prizes include research on the physics of ducklings and the therapeutic potential of ice cream.

Despite increasingly strict journal policies requiring the release of computational code files along with research papers, many scientists remain reluctant to share—underscoring the need for better solutions.

Members of newly certified workers’ organizations at campuses across the US speak about how they achieved official recognition and what they’re planning for the years ahead.

Projects funded by the National Institutes of Health increasingly employ subjective and promotional language in describing research, a study finds.

The center oversaw programs such as the Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship, many of which will continue.

A researcher’s existential crisis led to a scientific breakthrough.

Universities and institutes are preparing to terminate thousands of technically temporary researchers by next spring instead of granting them the permanent employment mandated by a 2013 labor law.

Some researchers have decided to provide their products without financial compensation or expectations of authorship on resulting papers, prompting a flurry of new work.