Besides helping to collect samples or spot butterflies for research projects—non-professionals can now conduct actual ...

Learn more about the National Academies’ various programs designed to connect, engage, and inspire. In the last twenty years, citizen science has blossomed as a way to engage a broad range of ...

When research on an intriguing material called for hundreds of samples, secondary-school students, teachers and technicians stepped up.

Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, a planetary scientist, has been photographing celestial bodies for decades. But for the Juno mission, her collaborators are citizen scientists.

Former Nvidia programmer Luke Durant’s search led to the groundbreaking discovery of the world’s largest known prime number ...

Member states of the European Union are obliged to designate Special Protection Areas (SPAs) as part of the Natura 2000 ...

In August, the Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences (AAPS) announced a fellowship opportunity in partnership with ...

“Birding with an experienced person during the Christmas Bird Count gives new birders a chance to spend a whole day with ...

The Porcupine Horticultural Society listens to Roxane Filion explain how to monitor birds and other species with citizen ...

A father and daughter team based in the U.S. have decoded a mock "alien signal" beamed from ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter a ...

The signal, transmitted in May 2023 from the European Space Agency's (ESA) ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), was part of an innovative art project called "A Sign in Space," led by media artist Daniela ...