Citizen science is booming and could play a much greater role in tackling climate change, reef health, biodiversity and ...

Everyone could contribute dramatically more to scientific knowledge if given better recognition, administrative support and ...

The University of Illinois is looking for citizen scientists to take part in a program to get more information on mosquitoes.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

M aya Fedeli is a citizen science and communications officer for European research projects at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. Driven by a deep belief in the power of shared experiences, she is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...