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Some scientists strive to separate work from life, while some prefer to mix them.

Researchers must plan for the future of their lab materials long before they decide to move on.

The father-and-son duo Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka crafted thousands of scientifically accurate models of plants and sea creatures as teaching aids. 

The father-and-son duo, the last generations of a long line of renowned glassworkers, crafted thousands of realistic models of plants and sea creatures.

How funders can improve transparency to foster efficiency and diversity in research

The agreement, which is not yet ratified, would increase academic workers’ salaries, but some call for an ongoing strike as the raises are less than desired.

Union-represented workers are walking out for an indefinite period of time after negotiations over their compensation and other issues stalled.

In the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, many researchers are exploring their options with the open-source platform Mastodon.

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.

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.

Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, numerous researchers have announced plans to either vacate or decline career opportunities in states where abortion is or will soon be illegal.