The article deals with the question whether careers have indeed become more complex during the last years and/or decades by applying methods stemming from chaos research. The movements of 215 business school graduates from two different cohorts (graduation around 1970 and 1990 respectively) along two career-related dimensions (coupling, i.e. careerrelated security, dependency, and number of job...

NASA's spacecraft have to function with exquisite precision in extraordinarily harsh environments. An essential part of making that happen is rigorous quality assurance on the systems go into these spacecraft. Jeanette Plante, a quality-engineering technical fellow Office Safety and Mission Assurance, one people charged ensuring rigor, which goes far beyond traditional concept quality-assurance...

Fed up with the endless round of grant and/or job applications? Or perhaps you simply can’t face running another gel or gazing at another tissue section? If life in the lab has lost its appeal, it could be worth checking out what other doors are open to you. For the most comprehensive guide to alternative career options, start with the New Niches section at Science’s Next Wave. Featured careers...

introduction. the number of medical gratuates choosing careers in psychiatry is in decline. in order to determine whether this disinclination toward psychiatry occurs before versus during medical school, this study, surveyed medical students at the start of their freshman year and last year of medical educations. methods. 100 freshman medical students and 100 of interns from three medical schoo...