Identifying weeds, checking out the pollen map, or discovering new plant life-forms are among the promising wealth of data ...

Citizen scientists are invited to use a specialized app to sift through photos captured by powerful telescopes, searching for signs of neutron stars merging. Reading time 2 minutes Thanks to a newly ...

Ever wondered what it might feel like to spot giant spider crabs while you're snorkeling? Or check plants for the circular ...

When Divina Cox was a child, the beaches in her home country of the Bahamas were typically postcard-perfect landscapes of fine white (and sometimes pink) sand at the edge of turquoise waters. But with ...

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Flooding, erosion, and sea level rise are all issues in the Lowcountry. But the SeaRise Project, a one-stop shop on the South Carolina Aquarium Citizen Science app, ...

Efforts are in full gear this summer to ramp up citizen scientist efforts involving two small mammals, one decidedly cute and another not normally described using that adjective. A new, ...

Black Hole Finder asks citizen scientists to identify singularities in telescope images. Black Hole Finder asks citizen scientists to identify singularities in telescope images. is a former weekend ...

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

For many, the term “scientist” brings up images of people clad in white lab coats clutching glass tubes, gathering data that will appear in dense academic articles that most people can’t parse, let ...

Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from plant identification apps, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...