Editor's Summary
15 February 2007
Separate labs
The academic career, particularly peripatetic postdoc positions in scientific research, is not calculated to make permanent partnerships easy. The quest for the right lab doing the right research can put thousands of miles between partners. Science writer Jennifer Ouellette has first-hand experience of marriage to a physicist. She writes of her experiences and those of others, and asks a question that has cropped up before: do women scientists get a raw deal?
News Feature: Scientists in love: When two worlds collide
One half of a physics couple that met online, Jennifer Ouellette seeks some advice from married scientists on how to handle both long-distance and up-close relationships, while juggling career and family. Can love survive?
doi:10.1038/445700a