Vast online archives of photos, videos and sound recordings collected by the public are reshaping how scientists study the ...

A citizen science study has found participants’ mental wellbeing is positively affected, in a variety of ways. The two of us can often be found in a patch of scrubby bushland, phone in hand, slowly ...

Community help is no longer just nice to have in the world of bat conservation, it is essential to large-scale bat monitoring ...

A Vienna-based citizen science study analyzed urban red fox sightings, revealing higher encounter rates in gardens, low-density housing, parks, and squares compared to industrial or agricultural areas ...

A plant missing for nearly 60 years has been found again in one of Australia’s most remote landscapes, and the rediscovery ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...