Citizen science volunteers monitor clouds such as this one over the Pamlico Sound for precipitation activity. Photo: C. Leinbach/Ocracoke Observer From our news services Have you ever wondered how ...

It often starts with something small, such as a new bird in a branch, a vibrant butterfly in a yard, a colorful plant growing ...

With the launch of Space Warps, a new citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform, you can now join in the search to find rare and elusive strong gravitational lenses in never-before-seen ...

The two of us can often be found in a patch of scrubby bushland, phone in hand, slowly scanning for plants. Or crouched ...

Join Tanja Harmon and guest Caroline Nickerson on this week’s Sustainable Living show to discuss becoming a citizen scientist. Caroline Nickerson, PhD, is a science communication researcher and civic ...

Defining Citizen Science in Context | Panelists opened by offering working definitions of citizen science—not just as data collection by non-scientists, but as a broader model for collaboration, where ...

LONGMEADOW — The wooden post by a path in the Fannie Stebbins Memorial Wildlife Refuge bears a sign encouraging people to participate in a bit of citizen science. Take a photo with a smartphone of the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It may seem like only yesterday that school ...

Record-breaking total of 15,000+ citizen science observations from the SETI Institute & Unistellar Network — up substantially from ~10,000 in 2024. Observers are already tracking fading 3I/ATLAS, new ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are ...

This activity was supported by contracts between the National Academy of Sciences and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (#10002925), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (#10003301), and Simons ...