Our birdsong recordings will be used to help monitor bird populations ...

Everyone could contribute dramatically more to scientific knowledge if given better recognition, administrative support and funding stability, new research has found. An international collaboration of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever wanted to be a scientist? You still can be – and you can do it today with just your phone or a notepad. Citizen ...

Citizen science is a powerful tool for involving more people in research. By influencing policy, it is transforming conservation at global, national and local levels. Citizen science actively ...

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 ...

The two of us can often be found in a patch of scrubby bushland, phone in hand, slowly scanning for plants. Or crouched behind a tree trunk with binoculars, pausing mid-breath to find the source of a ...

HU MIN/FOR CHINA DAILY In the Chengdu Otter Watch team, a citizen science initiative launched by Follow the River in July ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing astronomers to identify the exploding cataclysmic variable GOTO0650 within ...

Citizen scientists have successfully located thousands of previously unknown pairs of “eclipsing binary” stars, NASA announced in June. The ongoing initiative helps space researchers hunt for ...

Citizens are taking water testing into their own hands as sewage spills in rivers and on beaches increasingly get reported.

Have you ever wanted to be a scientist? You still can be – and you can do it today with just your phone or a notepad. Citizen science is a method of scientific data collection where community ...