This article shares reflections from an IUCN Member organisation about its efforts to elevate citizen and community science ...

Nowadays, this trend of citizen-collected science data is booming thanks to the proliferation of mobile phone apps and online crowdsourcing platforms. Examples include the Marine Debris Tracker, which ...

Citizen science is at the intersection of public participation, technology, and existing research projects,” said Alicia Lillich, emerging technologies specialist at the National Institutes of Health ...

Citizen Science is a rapidly growing set of techniques that harness the power of volunteers to assist and support a wide range of scientific research. But for citizen science to continue to grow – and ...

Citizen science is booming and could play a much greater role in tackling climate change, reef health, biodiversity and ...

In the Great Reef Census, reef images captured by citizen scientists are analysed by a global network of volunteers, generating timely data for ...

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 ...

This spring, in a Michigan meadow, teenagers spent a Saturday afternoon poking through tall grass collecting unknown bugs. In a library in Massachusetts, other children and youths spent a weekend ...

At the start of every year, most people will have made a list of New Year's resolutions. Some of the most common this year will be to get fit, adopt healthy eating habits and spend more time with the ...

As Australians try to maintain social engagement during self-isolation, citizen science offers a unique opportunity. Defined as “public participation and collaboration in scientific research”, citizen ...

In 1847, a young German named Ferdinand Mueller came to Adelaide, with a dream: to be the botanist who catalogued every plant species in Australia. Off he went, collecting plants from Queensland to ...

Richard Sprague keeps samples of his own feces, in the family freezer, so he can send them to a Stanford University laboratory. Some days he tries to improve his sleep by swallowing potato starch to ...