Citizen science is evolving into a powerful bridge between people and the natural world, enabling anyone to aid conservation while deepening their own environmental awareness. From photographing ...

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

With the launch of Space Warps, a new citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform, you can now join in the search to ...

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 ...

Citizen science is playing an increasingly critical role in biodiversity monitoring, from tracking endangered Cascade red foxes to mapping plant and animal populations through global platforms like ...

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 ...

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

NASA is inviting the public to join 36 citizen science projects. Volunteers can help with discoveries from asteroids to Martian clouds. To join, email do-nasa-science-join@lists.nasa.gov with ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. April has always felt like a favorite time of year for people who like science, civic life and the idea that ordinary citizens can still ...

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 ...