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 ...
Identifying weeds, checking out the pollen map, or discovering new plant life-forms are among the promising wealth of data available to users of PlantNet—a "Shazam!" for plants. Pierre Bonnet and ...
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 ...
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, ...
Critically, the study shows that smartphone photos collected by citizens can serve as powerful early-warning data to help fight this rising threat. While mosquitoes can be thought of as tiny flying ...
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 ...
Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are ...
The two of us can often be found in a patch of scrubby bushland, phone in hand, slowly scanning for plants. Or crouched ...