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In recent years, citizen science methodology has gained significant momentum and is becoming increasingly important in ...

Dear EarthTalk: What are some examples of citizen science in efforts to monitor and combat global warming? – Candace C., Tallahassee, FL The world is getting warmer each year, and people worldwide ...

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 ...

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology want your help studying galaxies far, far away. It may seem like something out of Star Wars, but the goal is to gather scientific information to learn ...

With the launch of Space Warps, a new citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform, you can now join in the search to find rare and elusive strong gravitational lenses in never-before-seen ...

There is a question that has been exercising some folks working with science outreach for some time. Is citizen science benefiting the citizen scientists rather than just using citizens as data ...