Ever wondered what it might feel like to spot giant spider crabs while you're snorkeling? Or check plants for the circular ...

A citizen science study has found participants’ mental wellbeing is positively affected, in a variety of ways.

Anyone who keeps a bird feeder has likely had the same uneasy thought after seeing a sudden blur of wings in the yard: What ...

This year’s celebration highlights how Americans can support federal missions not only through NASA research, but also by ...

Yongyi Min and her colleagues highlight how citizen input can help fill data gaps that are hindering the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs (Y. Min et al. Nature ...

Community science, also known as citizen science, is a powerful movement that bridges the gap between scientific research and ...

Defining Citizen Science in Context | Panelists opened by offering working definitions of citizen science—not just as data collection by non-scientists, but as a broader model for collaboration, where ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are ...

Colombian biologists have leveraged hundreds of observations made by non-scientists to build up a picture of hummingbirds' range in time and space. Colombia is a global hot-spot of deforestation, with ...

A new study by the UB and the ICM-CSIC reveals that the participation of volunteers in citizen science projects is an effective tool to help conserve corals and gorgonians, which are highly threatened ...

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 ...