A new global shark and ray census paired with a hands-on conservation course could turn everyday dives into powerful ...

The AWI's citizen science project 'Microplastic Detectives' has analyzed 2.2 tons of sand from German coasts for microplastics. The global production of plastics and the resulting plastic waste has ...

Citizen scientists volunteers attend an event or do observations through a specific research initiative on their own.

In a lab thousands of miles away from RIT at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, Professor Stanley Rotman is using hyperspectral data to find very small objects in images. In Denver, citizen Baba Karthik ...

Come April, armed with phones binoculars, people across India will turn their gaze to nature. From roadside trees to city lakes, thousands join the City Nature Challenge, a four-day global bioblitz to ...

Record-breaking total of 15,000+ citizen science observations from the SETI Institute & Unistellar Network — up substantially from ~10,000 in 2024. Observers are already tracking fading 3I/ATLAS, new ...

4.5 million gamers around the world have advanced medical science by helping to reconstruct microbial evolutionary histories using a minigame included inside the critically and commercially successful ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In my last blog post, I introduced Matthew ...

Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an important part of NASA’s human space exploration ...