Mobile applications for smartphones, tablets and other gadgets can turn just about anyone into a citizen scientist. App-equipped wireless devices give users worldwide the ability to act as remote ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...