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Monday’s eclipse is bringing together a diverse group of citizen scientists, working to collectively enhance our knowledge of the Sun and Earth’s atmosphere. Reading time 4 minutes Several ...

For nearly a decade, thousands of volunteers with no formal astronomy training have been staring at grainy infrared images on ...

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 concerned with spreading the net wider — or getting more helping hands on ...

Coral reefs hide "scientific treasures" that have survived for centuries, yet many of these giant, ancient organisms remain largely unknown to science. A new study published in the journal Nature ...

Citizen science is a powerful tool for involving more people in research. By influencing policy, it is transforming conservation at global, national and local levels. Citizen science actively ...

Citizen science isn’t new anymore. For decades, keen amateur naturalists have been gathering data about nature and the environment around them – and sharing it. But what is new is the rate at which ...

Taking a leisurely stroll along the iconic wooden pier in San Clemente? You might as well stop, snap a photo and become an instant citizen scientist. A new CoastSnap project has launched to document ...

New research by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) has found that citizen science initiatives could be one of the keys to unlocking ...