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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are ...
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 ...
The two of us can often be found in a patch of scrubby bushland, phone in hand, slowly scanning for plants. Or crouched ...